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¹ अहं हि विश्वकर्मा वै दानवानां महाकविः। यदि त्वं कर्तुकामोऽसि प्रियं शिल्पवतां वर। धर्मराजस्य दैतेय यादृशीमिह मन्यसे।। यां कृतां नानुकुर्वन्ति मानवाः प्रेक्ष्याधिष्ठिताः। मनुष्यलोके सकले तादृशीं कुरु वै सभाम्।। यत्र दिव्यान्भिप्रायन् पश्येम हि कृतांस्त्वया असुरान्मानुषांश्चैव सभां तां कुरु वै मय।। —(*Mahābhārata, Sabhā-parvan*, I, 5, 9–12.) *See* further details in the writer's *Indian Architecture*, p. 166, and his article on 'Ahura-Mazda and Maya-Asura' (Proceedings of the Fourth Oriental Conference), Vol. II, pp. 736–751.
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- Mahābhārata — Sanskrit
- Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit