Part 2: Description of Bhadrilapura

Now in this very Bhāratakṣetra in Jambūdvīpa there is an excellent city, Bhadrilapura, fair with wealth. Its high golden wall encircled by a moat has the beautiful appearance of the wall of Jambūdvīpa encircled by the ocean. At evening the chain of lights lighted in its rows of shops looked like a golden necklace of the Śrī of the city. Because of its great wealth resembling the quintessence of Bhogāvatī and Amarāvatī, it became the pleasure-ground of libertines and of prominent men.^[1] Here people begging for food are fed with many kinds of food at the food-dispensaries by rich men, like their own people at a festival.