Citations:lapises

• 1884, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa: Vana parva, published by Protap Chandra Roy (Calcutta: Bharata Press):

  page 455: and also spread over with beautiful varieagated golden lotuses of excellent fragrance having graceful stalks of lapis lazulis.

  page 471: And on the slopes of the mountain there were diverse blossoming trees, looking lovely, some bearing flowers of a golden hue, and some, of the hue of the forest-conflagration, and some, red, and some, sable, and some, green like unto lapises. And besides these, there were ...

  page 524: And he beheld mountain streams with waters glistening like the lapis lazuli, and with ten thousand snow-white ducks and swans

• 1972, Pratap Chandra Roy, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated Into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text:

  And on the slopes of the mountain there were diverse blossoming trees, looking lovely, some bearing flowers of a golden hue, and some, of the hue of the forest-conflagration, and some, red, and some sable, and some green like unto lapises. And besides these, there were ...

• 1891, Vālmīki (original author), The Ramayana: Kishkindhā kāndam. 1891, edited and published by Manmatha Nath Dutt, printed by Girish Candra Chackravarti:

  page 823: Vālmīki, Manmatha Nath Dutt: There are rivers by thousands with copious blue lapis leaves. Other excellent trees bring forth attires of divers kinds, and ornaments decked with pearls and lapises,— coveted alike by males and females.

  page 826: golden balconys; with their grounds paved with gold and silver; and furnished with lapis lazulis.

  page 835: embellished with golden garniture; resembling the infantine sun, — on daises composed of lapises; — golden trees with resplendent bodies, having the hues of purple lapises; and lotus-plants flocked with fowls; and (spots) surrounded by

and many other citations of the Ramayana:

• 1892, Vālmīki, Manmatha Nath Dutt, The Ramayana: Sundara kāndam, page 893:

  And beholding the city all round, furnished with golden doors; having quadrangular courts composed of lapises; ornamented with plastered jeweled pavements studded with all gems, crystals, and pearls; with mad elephants

• 1893, The Râmâyama: Translated Into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit of Valmiki, page 1377-8:

  And then that one endowed with calmness, grasped a bludgeon entwined with wreaths, and furnished with an iron ring measuring five fingers, and resembling the top of the Mahendra; plated with gold and embellished with diamonds and lapises, — and looking like the rod of Yama himself ; dreadful, and capable of removing the fear of the Rakshas. And whirling this, that highly powerful one, resembling the banner itself of Sakra in energy, Nikumbha possessed ...

• 1986, Ramashraya Sharma, A Socio-political Study of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Motilal Banarsidass Publ. (→ISBN), page 250:

  golden kundalas inlaid with lapises and diamonds. Their kundalas also appear to have been furnished with tiny bells which produced a jingle at the slightest movement. Valmiki does not mention any ornament for the nose.

• 1998, Vālmīki, Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: Araṇya-kāṇḍa, Kiṣkindhā-kāṇḍa, Sundara-kāṇḍa

  And beholding the city all round, furnished with golden doors; having quadrangular courts composed of lapises; ornamented with plastered jewelled pavements studded with all gems, crystals, and pearls; with mad elephants of burnished gold ...

• 1998, Vālmīki, Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: Yuddha-kāṇḍa:

  *On account of lapises set on it.

• 1929, The Srimad-Bhagbatam of Krishna-Dwaipayana-Vyasa, page 68:

  The tanks in the garden there had stairs of lapises. In the water of those tanks there were fully blossomed lotuses, utpalas (a kind of aquatic flower), lilies etc spreading their graces and aroma all around. There were also swans, karandavas ...

• 1896, A Prose English Translation of Srimadbhagavatam, edited and published by Manmatha Nath Dutt, printed by H. C. Dass, page 49:

  The tanks of the gardens had stairs of lapises,—and in the water there were lotuses, utpalas, lilies, etc.,—spreading their lustre all around; and swans Karanadavas: ruddy geese, disported themselves at their pleasure.

1954, Journal of the Oriental Institute (Vadodara, India), volume 4, page 132: They had graceful crests, variegated windows and raised daises, embellished with rubies and lapises, seeming to touch the sun, resembling mountains in grandeur, and resonant with the cries of kraulicas and peacocks and the tinklings of