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At Kṛishṇa's suggestion, Maya is stated to have built a Sabhā for the king Yudhishṭhira—'a durbar hall, or throne room,' in the words of Spooner. But no details of this hall are given. It is simply stated that 'there could not be any parallel in the world of the mortals, and whereon all heavenly ideas were depicted in bricks, stones' (or wood). He declares himself as a great *poet of architecture* (a Ruskin), among the rivals of gods, and he is the Viśvakarman who was the heavenly architect among the gods.¹