For gold pillars see CRAWFURD's description of the Hall of Audience at Ava.
"The roof is supported by a great number of pillars: with the exception of about fourteen or fifteen inches at the bottom of each pillar, painted of a bright red, the whole interior of the palace is one blaze of gilding--although little reconcilable to our notions of good taste in architecture, the building is unquestionably most splendid and brilliant, and I doubt whether so singular and imposing a royal edifice exists in any other country." _Embassy to Ava_, 133.
WILSON.] [Footnote 44: p.14.l.10.

_--delicate in shape and hue_.

Bopp's text is 'akaravantah suslakshnah, having forms and delicate.' The Calcutta edition reads 'akaraverna suslakshnah, elegant in figure and colour (complexion).

Delicacy of colour, i.e.a lighter shade, scarcely amounting to blackness at all, is in general a mark of high caste.

WILSON.] [Footnote 45: p.14.l.13._As with serpents Bhogavati._ Bhogavati, the capital of the serpents in the infernal world.