The holy city (Hastinapur) like the wide ocean, full of hundreds of palaces and mansions, possessing gates and arches and looking like dark clouds, appeared like the celestial capital of Indra. The people sported in great delight in the rivers, lakes, tanks, beautiful groves and woods.
तन्महोदधिवत् पूर्णं नगरं वै व्यरोचत। द्वारतोरणनिर्दूहैर्युक्तमध्चयोपमैः॥ प्रासादशतसम्बाधं महेन्द्रपुरसंनिभम्। नदीषु वनखण्डेषु वापीपल्वलसानुषु। काननेषु च रम्येषु विजहर्मुदिता जनाः॥