Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 17:153-160

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Çri Våndävana-nagara-varnana

Description of Çri Våndävana

Chapter 17: Verse 153-160

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 153.. . . which had many groves of beautiful flowering campaka trees, which was filled with scented breezes, . . . 154.-155. . . . which was filled with many fruit-bearing mango, guväka, panasa, kharjura, coconut, pomegranate, çriphala, bhåìga, jambira, nägaraìgaka, tuìga, ämrataka, jambü, kadali, ketaki, and kadamba trees, . . . 156. . . . and which had many beautiful and delightful secluded pastime-places filled with fruits and flowers. 157.-158.Then Viçvakarmä built a secret path across the moats, a path easy for the palace residents but impassable for outsiders, a path that was a narrow and discreet slightly submerged bridge made of jewels. 159.After each moat he built a beautiful wall a hundred dhanus high. 160. Each wall was twenty-five hastas thick, very beautiful, and made of rubies.