Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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and Tamisra that were like houses of pleasure and rest of the Śris of the two halves of Bharata; endowed with wonderful splendor from its peak Siddhāyatana having the eternal images, like Sumeru with its crest; possessing nine peaks made of various jewels, lofty pleasure-grounds of the gods, resembling the nine Graiveyaka-heavens, supporting two rows of dwellings of the Vyantaras on the north and south sides, like garments, twenty yojanas above the ground; made of beautiful silver slabs from base to peak, like an anklet that had fallen from heaven to earth; calling them frequently from afar, as it were, by its arms of large tree-tops shaken by the wind.
Ten yojanas above the earth, King Nami made fifty cities on the mountain in a southern row. Prākkinnara, Naragita, Bāhuketupura, Puṇḍarika, Haritketu, Setuketupura, Sarpāriketunagara, Śrībāhu, Śrigṛha, Lohärgala, Arijaya, Svargalilāpura, Vajrargala, Vajravimokanagara, Mahisara, Purañjaya, Sukṛtamukhi, Caturmukhi, Bahumukhā, Ratā, Viratā, Ākhaṇḍalapura, Vilāsayonipattana, Aparajita, Kāñcīdāma, Suvinaya, Kṣemankara, Sahacihnapura, Kusumapuri, Sañjayanti, Śakrapura, Jayanti, Vaijayantī, Vijayā, Kṣemankari, Candrabhāsapura, Ravibhāsa pura, Saptabhūtalāvāsa, Suvicitra, Mahäghna, Citrakuta, Trikūṭaka, Vaiśravaṇakuṭa, Śaśipura, Ravipura, Vimukhi, Vāhini, Sumukhi, Nityodyotini, and Nami himself lived in Śrirathanupuracakravāla, the capital city among these
cities.
In the same way Vinami made at once sixty cities in a northern row at the command of the Naga-king. Puryarjuni, Vāruṇī, Vairisaṁhāriṇī, Kailāsavāruņi, Vidyuddipta, Kilikila, Carucūḍāmaṇi, Candrabhābhuṣaṇa, Vanśavat, Kusumacula, Hansagarbha, Meghaka, Sankara, Lakṣmiharmya, Camara, Vimala, Asumatkṛta, Śivamandira, Vasumati, Sarvasiddhastuta, Sarvaśatruñjaya, Ketumālānkanagara, Indrakanta, Mahānandana, Aśoka, Vitaśoka, Visokaka, Sukhāloka, Alakatilaka, Nabhastilaka, Madira, Kumudakunda, Gaganavallabha, Yuvatitilaka, Avanitilaka,