As Indra's own supreme abode:

With folding doors both high and wide;

With hundred porches beautified:

Where golden statues towering rose

O'er gemmed and coralled porticoes.

Bright like a cave in Meru's side,

Or clouds through Autumn's sky that ride:

Festooned with length of bloomy twine,

Flashing with pearls and jewels' shine,

While sandal-wood and aloe lent