The city was wonderful to behold, gleaming with gold-burnished ornaments, and inhabited by troops of courtezans, and abounding in all kinds of gems, and graced with royal palaces.
चित्रामष्टापदाकारां वरनारीगणायुताम्। सर्वरत्नसमाकीर्णा विमानगृहशोभिताम्॥