By heaven's all moulding architect.
Near Bhogavatí[710] stands, the place
Where dwell the hosts of serpent race:
A broad-wayed city, walled and barred,
Which watchful legions keep and guard,
The fiercest of the serpent youth,
Each awful for his venomed tooth:
And throned in his imperial hall
Is Vásuki[711] who rules them all.
Explore the serpent city well,