Narada said: -
1. O king, the greatly effulgent assembly-hall of Vaishravana (Kubera) is one hundreds Yojanas in length and seventy Yojanas in breadth.
2. O king, it was built by Vaishravana himself by his ascetic powers. It was like the peaks of the Kailasa (mountain), and it darkens the brilliancy of the moon herself.
3. Being supported by the Guhyakas it looks as if it is attached to the firmament. Being adorned with celestials made large places of gold, it displays great beauty.
4. It is extremely delightful and rendered fragrant with celestials perfumes. It is ornamented with many great jewels. Resembling the peaks of the mass of white clouds, it seems to float in the sky.
5-6. It is painted with colours of celestials gold; and therefore it appears as if it is adorned with streaks of lightning. Here (in this assembly hall) sits on an excellent seat which is as bright as the sun and which is covered with celestials carpets and furnished with beautiful foot stools, the handsome king Vaishravana (Kubera) attired in excellent robes and adorned with costly ornaments and greatly brilliant ear-rings, and surrounded by his one thousand wives.
7-8. Delicious and cool breezes blowing though the generous forest of Mandaras and carrying the fragrance of the fragrant field of Jasmine and also of the lotuses on the breast of the Alaka (the celestials river) and of the gardens of Nandana (the celestials wood) wait upon the king of the Yakshas (Kubera).
9. O great king, there sing the celestials with the Gandharvas surrounded by various tribes of Apsaras in notes of celestials sweetness.
10-11. Mishrakeshi, Rambha, Chitrasena, Suchismita, Charunetra, Ghritachi, Menaka, Punjikasthala, Vishvachi, Sahajanya, Pramlocha, Urvashi, Ira, Varga, Saurabheyi, Samichi, Budbuda, Lata.
12. These and a thousand other Apsaras and Gandharvas, all great experts in music and dance, wait upon the lord of wealth.
13. That assembly-hall filled with the notes of instrumental and vocal music and with the sounds of various Gandharvas and Apsaras is extremely charming and delicious.
14-18. The Gandharvas named Kinnaras and others named Naras, Manibhadra, Dhanada Shvetabhadra, Guhyaka, Kasheraka, Gandakandu, the powerful Pradyota, Kustumburu, Pishacha, Gajakama, Vishalaka, Varahakama, Falodaka, Vibhishana, Tamraushtha, Hansachuda, Pushpanana, Falakaksha, Shikhavarta, Pingalaka, Shonitoda, Pravalaka, Vrikshavaspa, Aniketa and Chiravasas, O descendant of Bharata these, and many other Yakshas by hundreds and thousands (always wait upon Kubera).
19 The illustrious (goddess) Lakshmi and also Nala-Kubera always remain there (in that Sabha). Myself and many others like myself often go there.
20-24. Many Brahmana Rishis and many celestials Rishis always go there; many Rakshasas and Gandharvas, besides those already mentioned, wait in that assembly-hall upon the illustrious lord of wealth, O best of kings, there wait upon his friend the lord of wealth, being ever cheerful and knowing no fatigue, the illustrious (deity), the husband of Uma, the lord of all creatures, the three-eyed Col, the wielder of trident, the slayer of Asura Bhaganetra, the mighty deity of fearful bow, accompanied by his wife and surrounded by hundreds and thousands of spirits, some, some of dwarfish stature, some of fearful face, some hunch-backed, some with blood-red eyes, some of fearful yells, some feeding upon fat and flesh, some fearful to look at, and all armed with various weapons and possessed of the speed of wind.
25. With cheerful heart hundreds of Gandharva chiefs attired in their respective robes, Vishvavasu, Haha and Huhu.
26-27. Tumvaru, Parvata, Shailusha, the great expert in music Chitrasena, Chitraratha, these and innumerable other Gandharvas worship the lord of wealth. The chief of Vidyadharas, Chakradhamana with his followers.
28. Wait there upon the lord’, the aster of wealth, Hundreds and thousands of Kinnaras wait upon the lord, the master of wealth.
29-30. Innumerable kings with Bhagdatta at their head, and the Chief of Kimpurashas, Druma, the chief of the Rakshasas, Mahindra, Gandhamadana with many Yakshasi Gandharvas and Rakshasas (all wait upon Kubera).
31. The virtuous Vibhishana wait upon his elder brother, the lord (Kubera). The (mountains) Himalayas, Paripatra, Vindhya, Kailasa, Mandara.
32. Malaya, Dardura, Mahindra, Sunabha, the eastern and the western mountains.
33. These and many others in their personified forms with Mero at their head wait upon the illustrious lord of wealth.
34-38. The illustrious Nandishvara, Mahakala, many spirits with arrowy ears and sharp- pointed mouths, Kashtha, Kutimukha, Danti, greatly ascetic Vijaya, the powerful and the deep-roaring white bull of Shiva, many other Rakshasas and Pishachas, all wait upon the lord of wealth. The son of Pulastya (Kubera), surrounded by his attendants, always with his permission formerly used- to worship by bowing his head to the great deity, the god of gods, Shiva, the creator of the three worlds. One day the high-souled Bhava (Shiva) made friendship with Kubera, and form that day he is always present in the assembly-hall of the lord of wealth.
39. Those best of Jewels, those princes of all wealth, Shankha and Padma (in their personified forms) accompanied by all gems, wait upon the lord of wealth.
40. O king, such is the charming assembly-hall of Kubera which I saw. It is capable of moving in the firmament. Now I shall describe to you the assembly-hall of the Grandsire. Listen to it.
Thus ends the tenth chapter, the description of Kubhera’s Sabha, in the Lokapala Sabhakhyana of the Sabha Parva.