In the Caitanya Caritamrta, there is a description of a Ratha car that Krsnadas Kaviraja says was “as high as Mount Sumeru.” In the purport, Srila Prabhupada refers to a photograph that appeared in London’s Guardian newspaper, a photo which made the London Rathayatra canopy seem almost as tall at the 170-foot-high Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square (CC, Madhya, 13.19). Was the verse an example of hyperbole? Not quite! (Admiral Nelson was a well-known colonizer).