Those regions that are owned by the great gods, that are of various aspects and colours, of various descriptions and productive of various fruits, and that are of great excellence, those cars again that move at the desire of the riders, those beautiful palaces and hells, those various pleasure-gardens decorated with golden lotuses, those regions that belong to the four Regents and Shukra and Brihaspati and the Maruts and Vishvedevas and Saddhyas and the Ashvins, and the Rudras and the Adityas and the Vasus, and other dwellers of heaven, are, O sire, spoken of as hells, when compared with the region of the Supreme Self.
अमूनि यानि स्थानानि देवानां परमात्मनाम्। नानासंस्थानवर्णानि नानारूपफलानि च।॥ दिव्यानि कामचारीणि विमानानि सभास्तथा। आक्रीडा विविधा राजन् पद्मिन्यश्चैव काञ्चनाः॥ चतुर्णा लोकपालानां शुक्रस्याथ बृहस्पतेः। मरुतां विश्वदेवानां साध्यानामश्विनोरपि॥ रुद्रादित्यवसूनां च तथान्येषां दिवौकसाम्। एते वै निरयास्तात स्थानस्य परमात्मनः॥