Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 4:161-170

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Goloka-varnana

Description of Goloka

Chapter 4: Verse 161-170

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 161. ..that was completely indescribable, that no great pandita could describe, that was a great circle of six gavyutis,... Note: A gavyuti is equal to two miles. 162. ...that had a hundred palaces, shone with the splendour of many jewels, was made of the best of the best of priceless jewels,... 163. ...was beautiful with many impassable deep moats, filled with a hundred flower gardens and many kalpa-vrksa trees, constructed with many jewels, surrounded by great walls,... 164. ...and was made with jewel benches and seven wonderful jewel gates, O sage,... 165. ...and a series of seven gates that led, one after the other, to a place of sixteen gates. 166.Gazing at this great wall as tall as a thousand bows and splendidly beautiful with many small jewel domes, the (three) demigods became filled with wonder. 167.Keeping it on their right, they happily went a small distance behind that asrama. 168.There they saw a billion asramas of many gopas and gopis. 169.They gazed again and again at the beautiful, beautiful ever new asramas of the gopas and gopis. 170.After thus seeing all of Goloka, the demigods returned to the beautiful circle of Vrndavana forest.