A City Appears Across One Hundred Yojanas
Bala Kanda, Doha 129
Doha 129 · Movement 2 of 2
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Along Narada's road, emptiness gathers into walls, towers, gardens, avenues, and shining gates. Vishnu's Maya raises a city one hundred yojanas across, vast enough to fill the horizon and complete enough to carry the weight of unquestioned reality.
Every design surpasses even the splendour of Shrinivasa's own divine abode. Balconies lift above broad streets, banners move in clean air, and distant palace roofs catch the light. Nothing appears unfinished or newly made.
The city is not placed outside divine purpose. It is a compassionate world fashioned for one hidden root in a devotee. Narada approaches with veena in hand, unaware that the road itself has entered Hari's teaching.
Where the road had been empty, a city greater than heaven rises before Narada.
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Hari's maya creates varied splendid city on Narada's route, hundred yojanas extent
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- Maya creates a city on the route with extent hundredyojanas and variedconstruction exceedingShrinivasapura; no modernmetricconversion or actualgeographicmapping claimed
- Selected cityalready present, no personifiedMaya/create-hand/magicalrays; Narada/king/princess inlaterunits notpictured
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- Entire cityarchitecture imaginaryfantasynarrative setting, creamgold domescolonnades terraces openarchedgateway roads walls gardens distantmountains not authenticatedhistoricbuildings or mappedsite
- Wide recedingtiered palaces/road imply variedsplendor andextent withoutliteral hundrednumbers/accuratecartography, comparativeShrinivasapura notsidebyside surveyedproof
- Floweringglassarch whitepinkboughs golden azure emerald tesserae decorative imaginedstyle, no people/deities or incarnationEarthrelief foreignscene
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बिरचेउ मग महुँ नगर तेहिं सत जोजन बिस्तार। श्रीनिवासपुर तें अधिक रचना बिबिध प्रकार।।129।।
Along the road, Vishnu conjured a city one hundred yojanas in extent. Its designs of every kind surpassed even Shrinivaspura, His own divine abode.