Arjuna said: 'As I was returning, I beheld another great wonder: a divine city, moving at will, blazing like fire and the sun. It had beautiful jeweled trees and bright birds, and was inhabited by the ever-joyful Paulomas and Kalakeyas. It had towers and lofty buildings, four gates, and was hard to approach, made wholly of jewels, wondrous to behold, surrounded by divine jeweled trees bearing flowers and fruit. Beautiful heavenly birds adorned it, and on every side stood joyful asuras armed with spears, ṛṣṭis, maces, bows, and hammers, wearing garlands. Seeing this wondrous city of the daityas, I asked Mātali: "What is this that I see?" Mātali said: "There was a daitya woman named Pulomā and a great asura woman named Kālakā. For a thousand divine years they practiced supreme austerity, and at the end of their austerity Svayambhū granted them a boon. For their sons they chose little sorrow and invulnerability to gods, rākṣasas, and serpents. And this beautiful flying city, radiant with merit, full of every jewel, inaccessible even to the immortals together with the yakṣas, gandharvas, serpents, asuras, and rākṣasas, Brahmā made for the Kālakeyas, O best of the Bharatas. It is endowed with every desired quality, free from grief and sickness. This divine flying city, where the Paulomas and Kalakeyas dwell, moves without the immortals' aid. It is known as the great city Hiraṇyapura, and is guarded by the Kalakeyas and Paulomas, the great asuras. They are ever joyful, unslayable by all the gods, and dwell here free of anxiety and care. But Brahmā had long ago decreed their death at the hands of a man."'