Dhammapada 2.7.p23

2.7.p23

Devāsurasaṅgāme pana asuresu parājitesu dasayojanasahassaṃ tāvatiṃsadevanagaraṃ nāma nibbatti. Tassa pana nagarassa pācīnapacchimadvārānaṃ antarā dasayojanasahassaṃ hoti, tathā dakkhiṇuttaradvārānaṃ. Taṃ kho pana nagaraṃ dvārasahassayuttaṃ ahosi ārāmapokkharaṇipaṭimaṇḍitaṃ. Tassa majjhe sālāya nissandena tiyojanasatubbedhehi dhajehi paṭimaṇḍito sattaratanamayo sattayojanasatubbedho vejayanto nāma pāsādo uggañchi. Suvaṇṇayaṭṭhīsu maṇidhajā ahesuṃ, maṇiyaṭṭhīsu suvaṇṇadhajā; pavāḷayaṭṭhīsu muttadhajā, muttayaṭṭhīsu pavāḷadhajā; sattaratanamayāsu yaṭṭhīsu sattaratanadhajā, majjhe ṭhito dhajo tiyojanasatubbedho ahosi. Iti sālāya nissandena yojanasahassubbedho pāsādo sattaratanamayova hutvā nibbatti, koviḷārarukkhassa nissandena samantā tiyojanasataparimaṇḍalo pāricchattako nibbatti, pāsāṇaphalakassa nissandena pāricchattakamūle dīghato saṭṭhiyojanā puthulato paṇṇāsayojanā bahalato pañcadasayojanā jayasumanarattakambalavaṇṇā paṇḍukambalasilā nibbatti. Tattha nisinnakāle upaḍḍhakāyo pavisati, uṭṭhitakāle ūnaṃ paripūrati.

When the conflict between the gods and the Asuras was over and the Asuras had been defeated, there came into existence the City of the Thirty-three. The distance from the eastern gate to the western gate was ten thousand leagues, and the distance from the southern gate to the northern gate was the same. Now this city was provided with a thousand gates and was adorned with gardens and pools, and in the midst thereof, as the fruit of the building of the hall, there arose a palace called the Palace of Victory. Its height was seven hundred leagues, and it was decked with banners three hundred leagues long. On staffs of gold were banners of jewels, and on staffs of jewels were banners of gold; on staffs of coral were banners of pearls, and on staffs of pearls were banners of coral; on staffs of the seven precious stones were banners of the seven precious stones. Such was the palace that arose as the fruit of the building of the hall; a thousand leagues was its height, and it was composed of the seven precious stones.

As the result of the planting of the ebony-tree, there arose the Coral-tree, a hundred leagues in circumference. As the result of the building of the stone seat, there came into existence at the foot of the Coral-tree the Yellowstone throne, of a reddish yellow color like that of the jasmine flower, sixty leagues in length, fifty leagues in breadth, and fifteen leagues thick. When Sakka sits down on this throne, half its mass sinks into the ground; when he rises, it is all above ground. The elephant was reborn as god Erāvaṇa. There are no animals in the World of the Gods; so when he went into the garden to play, he would quit his form as a god and become the elephant Erāvaṇa, a hundred and fifty leagues in size. For the thirty-three youths, Erāvaṇa created thirty-three water-pots, each two or three quarters of a league around.