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With their palaces decorated with fresh flower-garlands, their doors made of fragrant sandalwood, and their terraces with waving penents; those noble towns are very inviting.
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Their noble gates are eight Yojana tall, their tops are bedecked with red coloured pots and golden bells hang from them.
THE NUMBER OF PALACES OF THE INDRAS OF SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN BHAVANA HEAVENS
(Such are the palaces) where the Bhavanpati Indras remain so engrossed in the songs sung by beautiful young goddesses and music played on celestial instruments that they don't even notice the passage of time.
39. (The Bhavanapati Indras of the South are) Camarendra, Dharanendra, Veņudeva, Pūrṇa, Jalakānta, Amitagati, Velamba, Ghosa, Hari and Agniśikha.
The gem-studded, golden pillared and bedecked with enticing creeper coves, the palces of these Bhavanapti Indras are in the South. Those of the rest of the Indras are in the North.
Towards the South, there are thirty-four lākha (palaces of the Asurakumāras), forty-four lakha (palaces of the Nāgakumāras), forty-eight lakha (palaces of the Suparṇakumāras), forty lakha (palaces each of the Dvīpakumāras, Udadhikumāras, Vidyutakumāras, Stanitakumāras and the Agnikumāras) and fifty lākha (palaces of the Vāyukumaras).
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