[698]
Level all around, abounding in fragrant tagara, the earth,
carpeted over with indagopaka insects, shines supremely verdant.
Delightful are the woodland shrines; delightful, resounding with the calls of swans,
stand the well-fashioned lotus ponds, strewn with fallen lotus blossoms.
The pillars, octagonal and well-wrought, are all made of beryl;
the thousand-pillared palaces, filled with maidens, blaze with splendor.
Through merits (puñña) of your own you have arisen in a divine mansion (vimāna),
unconfined, secure, and delightful, endowed with unending happiness.
Methinks you do not long even for the mansion of the Thousand-Eyed One,
for vast is this power (iddhi) of yours, even as that of Sakka the resplendent.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.