Gold-leaf nats unfurl delicate wings between curling vines, their palms pressed in reverence above the lacquered Pali script. This folio transforms ritual text into a celestial garden—where devotion blooms in every gilded tendril.

How many serpentine rain-clouds coil beneath the winged figures?

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