An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s2.502

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Brahmasabhāvarṇana(m) ("description of the palace of Brahmán"). § 270 (Lokapālas.): In the *Kṛta age*, Aditya (= the Sun) having seen the *sabhā* of Pitāmaha (i.e. Brahmán), which is immeasurable and immaterial (*mānasi*), told Nārada, who also desired to see it, to perform a *Brahmavrata* for 1,000 years. Nārada, then, having repaired to Himavat, performed the penance, and was taken by Sūrya (the Sun) to the *sabhā* of Brahmán. Within a moment it assumes a different form, and cannot be described. It is neither cold nor warm, without hunger or thirst, etc.; it is not supported by columns; it is eternal, etc. There Sarvalokapitāmaha (i.e. Brahmán) is sitting, himself alone incessantly creating by means of his divine illusion (*deva-māyayā*), surrounded by the *prajānāṃ patayaḥ* (enumeration), etc. (II, 11).