[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s2.502 # 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 An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s2.502 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s2.502](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.502) 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). - [Previous: c5.s2.501](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.501) - [Next: c5.s2.503](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.503) - [Up: c5.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.502](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.502) · Pramāṇa