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The twenty-ninth chapter, the width of the city, the four-sided dance, the tabahalaka-patis, thirty, and the number of dandas, the Rudras, twice the number of vines. ||62|| Thirty dandas between them, these are adorned with jewels and gold, with steps for climbing, like the summit of a mountain, touching the sky. ||63|| Between the two ahalakas, there is a gopura, adorned with jewels. It is fifty dhanus high and twenty-five dhanus wide. ||64|| Between the gopura and the ahalakas, there are three dhanus wide indrakosas, meaning burjas. The burjas are equipped with windows and balconies. ||65|| Between those burjas, there are very clean devapathas, which are three hastas wide and twelve hastas long. ||66|| Thus, surrounded by the moat, the kot, and the parikota, these cities are adorned, as if they were beautiful women wearing clothes. ||67|| In each of these cities, there are one thousand squares, twelve thousand streets, and one thousand gates, both small and large. ||68|| Half of these, that is, five hundred gates, are equipped with doors, and they are adorned like the eyes of the city. Of these five hundred gates, two hundred are the most excellent. ||69|| These cities are nine yojanas wide from east to west, and twelve yojanas long from south to north. All these cities face east. ||70|| Who can describe the extent of the royal palaces and other things in these cities? For even I, the king of the nagas, am overwhelmed by the thought of it. ||71|| For each of these cities, there is one crore of villages, and there are also various other settlements, such as kheta, mandaba, etc. ||72||