Part 2: Incarnation as Vāsupūjya (introduction)

Now in the southern half of Bharata in Jambūdvīpa, there is a city named Campā like a campaka-wreath of the earth. Its people were characterized by having vaikriya-forms,^[1] as it were, from their reflections in the shrines whose walls were made of jewels. At every house the pleasure-pools were supplied with water by themselves by the steps paved with moonstones dripping with water at night.^[2] Many of its houses which had creepers of smoke from incense which was present appeared like houses of Pātāla with snakes. Its pleasure-pools with young women of the city playing in them had the appearance of the Ocean of Milk with Apsarases emerging. The women, harsh with the ṣaḍja-note,^[3] singing the ṣaḍjakaiśikī^[4] with ease, rival the cries of the peacocks. Women, carrying betel-leaf and areca nuts into the houses of rich men, appear to hold pleasure-parrots to teach.