The Garden of Fragrant Shoots

"At that time, the prince, receiving his royal father's instruction, went together with ten thousand court ladies to the Garden of Fragrant Shoots, to journey there for pleasure and delight. At that time, the prince rode in a wondrous jewelled carriage, that carriage adorned with every kind of ornament, upon which was set a great maṇi-jewel lion-seat, and he sat upon it; five hundred court ladies each took hold of jewelled cords and drew the carriage forward, their advance and halting perfectly measured, neither too slow nor too fast; hundreds of thousands of myriads of people held every kind of jewelled canopy, hundreds of thousands of myriads of people held every kind of jewelled banner, hundreds of thousands of myriads of people held every kind of jewelled pennant, hundreds of thousands of myriads of people made every kind of music, hundreds of thousands of myriads of people burned every kind of famed incense, and hundreds of thousands of myriads of people scattered every kind of wondrous flower, surrounding him before and behind as his attendant escort. The roads were level and even, with no rise or fall at all, and every kind of jewel and mingled flower was scattered over them; jewelled trees stood in ranks, jewelled nets covered everything above, and towers of every kind stretched out along the way. Within those towers, in some there were gathered every kind of rare treasure; in some there were arrayed every kind of ornament; in some there were laid out every kind of food and drink; in some there hung every kind of clothing; in some there were prepared every kind of necessary implement; and in some there were stationed women of upright beauty, together with measureless young attendants and servants — and whatever was needed, all of it was given freely.