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Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Revelations

Let the pure associate with the pure, Ever in recollection firm; Dwelling harmoniously wise, Thus shall ye put an end to griefs. The description of the New Jerusalem in the book of Revelations finds a curious parallel in the Hindu Puranas. Here we are told that the divine Krishna, the eighth incarnation of Vishnu, took up his abode in the wonderful city Devaraka, and was visited there by the various orders of gods and geniuses. (Surindro Mohum Tagore, "Mani Mala," Pt. II, Calcutta, 1881.) Gods, Asuras, Gandharas, Kinnaras began to pour into Dwaraka, to see Krishna and Valarama.

Some descended from the sky, some from their cars-and alighting underneath the banyan tree, looked on Dwaraka, the matchless.

The city was square,-it measured a hundred yojonas, and over all, was decked in pearls, rubies, diamonds, and other gems.

The city was high,-it was ornamented with gems; and it was furnished with cupolas of rubies and diamonds,-with emerald pillars, and with court-yards of rubies. It contained endless temples. It had cross-roads decked with sapphires, and highways blazing with gems. It blazed like the meridian sun in summer.