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## Third Rebirth: The Authority of the Vanavyantara [339]
These [cities] are round on the outside, square on the inside, and are constructed with a foundation like the seed of a lotus. They are surrounded by deep and wide ditches and moats. They are equipped with ramparts, atalaka (covered halls), doors, toranas (gateways), and gateways, as described in Sutra 117. These buildings are pleasing, beautiful, and well-proportioned. Many Vanavyantara gods, including Pisacha, reside in these cities. These gods are very fickle, playful, and fond of humor due to their restless minds. They are deeply attached to serious laughter, songs, and dances. They are adorned with garlands of flowers, kalangi (a type of head ornament), crowns, earrings, and other ornaments as they desire. Their chests are adorned with long, beautiful, and blooming garlands of various flowers, made from fragrant flowers that bloom in all seasons. They enjoy sensual pleasures as they desire, possess forms and bodies as they wish, wear various colors, and wear the finest, varied, and bright clothes. They are fond of amusement, love (sexual play), quarrels, games, and noise. They are full of laughter and conversation. They carry swords, maces, spears, and lances in their hands. They are adorned with various symbols made of many gems and jewels. They are powerful, radiant, glorious, strong, noble, capable, happy, and have chests adorned with garlands. Their arms are strong and bound with bracelets. Angada (a type of ornament) and earrings touch their cheeks. They wear ear ornaments. Their bodies are extremely radiant. They wear long garlands. They move about, illuminating and radiating the ten directions with their divine color, divine fragrance, divine touch, divine solidity, divine form, divine power, divine radiance, divine brilliance, divine shadow (luster), divine fire (light), divine energy, and divine aura. They rule over their millions of earth-dwelling city dwellers, their thousands of Samanika gods, their chief queens, their councils, their armies, their army commanders, their protectors, and many other Vanavyantara gods and goddesses. They enjoy divine pleasures with great festivity, dancing, singing, and playing musical instruments like the veena, tal (cymbals), taal (rhythm), trutit ghan (a type of drum), mridanga (a type of drum), and other instruments, creating a great sound. This description is general for the Vanavyantara. In particular, the description of the Pisacha and other Vanavyantara should be understood in the same way. That is, in those earth-dwelling cities, the Pisacha gods rule over their own buildings, Samanika gods, and goddesses. In these cities, two Pisacha kings, Kala and Maha Kala, reside. They are powerful, radiant, and enjoy divine pleasures. Kala is the king of the Pisacha in the southern region, and Maha Kala is the king of the Pisacha in the northern region. Kala, the Pisacha king, rules over countless earth-dwelling cities like millions of cities, four thousand Samanika gods, four chief queens, three councils, seven armies, seven...