Verse 29

²⁶Kuranga, Kurara, Kusumbha, Vaikanka, Trikuta, Sisira, Patanga, Rucaka, Nisadha, Sinivasa, Kapila, Sankha, Vaidurya, Jarudhi, Hamsa, Rsabha, Naga, Kalanjara, Narada and the rest, twenty mountains, are set all around the base of Meru like the filaments about the seed-cup of a lotus. ²⁷East of Meru, Jathara and Devakuta run north eighteen thousand yojanas and are two thousand broad and high; so, to the west, Pavana and Pariyatra; to the south, Kailasa and Karavira, running east; and to the north, Trisrnga and Makara. Ringed by these eight, the golden mountain blazes all around like fire. ²⁸On the head of Meru, they say, a city was laid out in the middle for the revered one who is his own birth, ten thousand thousand yojanas square and made of gold.

²⁹Round about it eight cities are laid out for the eight guardians of the worlds, each in its own quarter and its own form, and each a quarter of that one in measure.