rivers the Kaveri; the Kimpuna, the Visalya and the river Vaitarani also;
the Tritiya, the Jeshthila, and the great Sone (Soane); the Charmanwati
and the great river Parnasa; the Sarayu, the Varavatya, and that queen of
rivers the Langali, the Karatoya, the Atreyi, the red Mahanada, the
Laghanti, the Gomati, the Sandhya, and also the Trisrotasi--these and
other rivers which are all sacred and are world-renowned places of
pilgrimage, as also other rivers and sacred waters and lakes and wells and
springs, and tanks, large or small, in their personified form, O Bharata,
wait upon and worship the lord Varuna. The points of the heavens, the
Earth, and all the Mountains, as also every species of aquatic animals,
all worship Varuna there. And various tribes of Gandharvas and Apsaras,
devoted to music, both vocal and instrumental, wait upon Varuna, singing
eulogistic hymns unto him. And all those mountains that are noted for
being both delightful and rich in jewels, wait (in their personified
forms) in that Sabha, enjoying sweet converse with one another. And the
chief minister of Varuna, Sunabha by name, surrounded by his sons and
grandsons, also attend upon his master, along with (the personified form)
of a sacred water called go. These all, in their personified forms,
worship the deity. O bull of the Bharata race, such is the assembly room
of Varuna seen by me before, in the course of my wanderings. Listen now to
the account I give of the assembly room of Kuvera.'


SECTION X

"Narada said,--'Possessed of great splendour, the assembly house of
Vaisravana, O king, is a hundred yojanas in length and seventy yojanas in
breadth. It was built, O king, by Vaisravana himself using his ascetic
power. Possessing the splendour of the peaks of Kailasa, that mansion
eclipses by its own the brilliance of the Moon himself. Supported by