The streets were all wide and excellently laid out. Adorned with innumerable white mansions, the city looked like Amaravati (the celestials city); it looked like a mass clouds charged with lightings. It came to be called Indraprastha.
आयसैश्च महाचक्रैः शुशुभे तत् पुरोत्तमम्। सुविभक्तमहारथ्यं देवतावाधवर्जितम्॥ विरोचमानं विविधैः पाण्डुरैर्भवनोत्तमैः। तत् त्रिविष्टपसंकाशमिन्द्रप्रस्थं व्यरोचत॥