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## Third Chapter: Description of Devas [327]
In these abodes, many aforementioned abode-dwelling Devas reside. There are ten categories of these abode-dwelling Devas - starting with Asurakumaras and ending with Stanitakumaras.
The marks inscribed on the crowns or ornaments of the Devas of these ten categories are as follows: 1. Chudamani, 2. Naga's hood, 3. Garuda, 4. Vajra, 5. Crown marked with a full Kalash, 6. Lion, 7. Makara, 8. Hosti's mark, 9. Superior horse, and 10. Vaddha Manak (Sikora).
These abode-dwelling Devas, marked with the aforementioned signs, are beautiful, with great intellect, great radiance, great strength, great fame, great influence, and immense happiness. They have chests adorned with garlands, arms adorned with bracelets and armlets, ear ornaments touching their cheeks, and ear-lobes adorned with earrings. They wear various ornaments on their hands, diverse flower garlands, and crowns on their heads. They wear auspicious, excellent clothes, and are adorned with auspicious, superior garlands and unguents. They have radiant bodies, wear long flower garlands, and illuminate the ten directions with their divine color, divine fragrance, divine touch, divine power, divine nature, divine wealth, divine radiance, divine brilliance, divine splendor, divine light, divine brilliance, and divine aura. They rule over their respective abodes, their thousands of Samanik Devas, their almost thirty Devas, their Lokapalas, their chief consorts, their councils, their armies, their army commanders, their protectors, and many other abode-dwelling Devas and Devis. They perform and cause to be performed the duties of leadership, priesthood, governance, and generalship, and while doing so, they enjoy divine and enjoyable pleasures, accompanied by the great sound produced by divine dancing, singing, musical instruments, stringed instruments, drums, cymbals, flutes, and Dhanamridanga.
Generally, after the questions and answers regarding the dwelling places of the abode-dwelling Devas, a specific question was asked about the dwelling place of the Asurakumaras. In response, it was said that there are sixty-four lakh abodes of Asurakumar Devas in a region of one lakh seventy-eight thousand yojanas, excluding one thousand yojanas above and below the Ratnapraba earth. These abodes are round on the outside, square on the inside, and have a base resembling the petals of a lotus. One should understand the description of these abodes as before.
Many Asurakumar Devas reside in these abodes. They are black, have eyes like red rubies, lips like Bimba fruit, teeth like white flowers, black hair, wear one earring on their left ear, have bodies smeared with wet sandalwood, wear extremely fine clothes, resembling Silindhra flowers, which are slightly red and do not cause any discomfort. They have crossed the first stage of youth (Kumar) and are in the second stage of youth (Bhadra Yauvana), not yet reaching the third stage. They have arms adorned with beautiful ornaments, such as Talabhangaka (armlet), Trutita (arm protector), and other superior ornaments, and are adorned with pure gems and jewels. They have fingers adorned with ten rings, wear crowns marked with Chudamani, are beautiful, have great intellect, great radiance, great fame, great influence, great happiness, and chests adorned with garlands. The rest of their description is as before. They enjoy divine and enjoyable pleasures.