Guhyakas, that mansion seems to be attached to the firmament. Of celestial
make, it is rendered extremely handsome with high chambers of gold.
Extremely delightful and rendered fragrant with celestial perfumes, it is
variegated with numberless costly jewels. Resembling the peaks of a mass
of white clouds, it seems to be floating in the air. Painted with colours
of celestial gold, it seems to be decked with streaks of lightning. Within
that mansion sitteth on an excellent seat bright as the sun and covered
with celestial carpets and furnished with a handsome footstool, king
Vaisravana of agreeable person, attired in excellent robes and adorned
with costly ornaments and ear-rings of great brilliance, surrounded by his
thousand wives. Delicious and cooling breezes murmuring through forests of
tall Mandaras, and bearing fragrance of extensive plantations of jasmine,
as also of the lotuses on the bosom of the river Alaka and of the Nandana-
gardens, always minister to the pleasure of the King of the Yakshas. There
the deities with the Gandharvas surrounded by various tribes of Apsaras,
sing in chorus, O king, notes of celestial sweetness. Misrakesi and Rambha,
and Chitrasena, and Suchismita; and Charunetra, and Gritachi and Menaka,
and Punjikasthala; and Viswachi Sahajanya, and Pramlocha and Urvasi and
Ira, and Varga and Sauraveyi, and Samichi, and Vududa, and Lata--these and
a thousand other Apsaras and Gandharvas, all well-skilled in music and
dance, attend upon Kuvera, the lord of treasures. And that mansion, always
filled with the notes of instrumental and vocal music, as also with the
sounds of dance of various tribes of Gandharvas, and Apsaras hath become
extremely charming and delicious. The Gandharvas called Kinnaras, and
others called Naras, and Manibhadra, and Dhanada, and Swetabhadra and
Guhyaka; Kaseraka, Gandakandu, and the mighty Pradyota; Kustumvuru,
Pisacha, Gajakarna, and Visalaka, Varaha-Karna, Tamraushtica, Falkaksha,
and Falodaka; Hansachuda, Sikhavarta, Vibhishana, Pushpanana, Pingalaka,
Sonitoda and Pravalaka; Vrikshavaspa-niketa, and Chiravasas--these O
Bharata, and many other Yakshas by hundred and thousands always wait upon