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Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu .2.106

ādi-padena puruṣottama-vāsaś ca, yathā brāhme—
[aadi-padena purushottama-vaasash cha, yathaa braahme—]
aho kṣetrasya māhātmyaṁ samantād daśa-yojanam |
[aho kshetrasya maahaatmyam samantaad dasha-yojanam |]
diviṣṭhā yatra paśyanti sarvān eva caturbhujān ||106||
[divishthaa yatra pashyanti sarvaan eva chaturbhujaan ||106||]
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
ādi-padena puruṣottama-vāsaś ca, yathā brāhme—
aho kṣetrasya māhātmyaṁ samantād daśa-yojanam |
diviṣṭhā yatra paśyanti sarvān eva caturbhujān ||106||
The word ādi indicates Puri as well, as illustrated from the Brahma Purāṇa: The glory of Puri with its surrounding area of 80 miles is inconceivable. The devatās see everyone residing there as having four arms.

In the Brahma Purāṇa it is said, “The transcendental significance of Puruṣottama-kṣetra, which is the eighty-square-mile field of Lord Jagannātha, cannot be properly described. Even the demigods from higher planetary systems see the inhabitants of this Jagannātha Purī as having exactly the same bodily features possessed by one in Vaikuṇṭha. That is, the demigods see the inhabitants of Jagannātha Purī as being four-handed.”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
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