When the image was entering the gate, the queen and the brilliant ladies with her in the gallery above scattered far and wide all kinds of flowers, which floated about and fell promiscuously to the ground.

In this way everything was done to promote the dignity of the occasion.

The carriages of the monasteries were all different, and each one had its own day for the procession.

(The ceremony) began on the first day of the fourth month, and ended on the fourteenth, after which the king and queen returned to the palace.
Seven or eight le to the west of the city there is what is called the King's New Monastery, the building of which took eighty years, and extended over three reigns.

It may be 250 cubits in height, rich in elegant carving and inlaid work, covered above with gold and silver, and finished throughout with a combination of all the precious substances.