Srimadbhagavatham skandha4-chapters26 and 28-Puranjanopaakhyana

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Chapters 26 to 28-Allegory of Puranjana

continued

 

Purajana went for hunting in his chariot, sareera,,

drawn by five horses, the senses, with two pairs of shafts, 'I'ness and

`my'ness, two wheels , dharma and

adharma, one axle, prakrthi with three flagstaffs, the three gunas. Thee

chariot had one rein, mind and the charioteer was buddhi. The seat was the

heart and there were two yokes , joy and sorrow. Equipped thus he went on

hunting indiscriminately and got tired while causing much damage to the living

beings in the forest. Returning to his abode he saw his wife angry and lying on

he floor and pacified her and stated enjoying life with her.

 

Thus he found that he reached the old age. Then a

gandharva named Chandavega, time, with 360 powerful gandharvas, ailments of the

body, attacked and destroyed the city part by part. The guarding serpent

fighting them for hundred years became tired. The grey-haired daughters of

Time, the gandharva married to Yavnesvara, bhaya, and the army of Yavana, ailments

of old age, destroyed the whole city. the whole city. The serpent, prana, no

longer able to protect the city left and the city fell to pieces. Puranjana

even when he was dragged by the powerful yavana, did not think of his true

friend , Isvara, but was only tinking of his wife at the time of his death. As

a result, he was born as a woman in his

next life in the palace of the king of vidharbha and malaydhavaja paandya

married her. Paandya means a bhaagavatha or devotee. Thus she was iin the

company of great devotees. They had one

daughter and six sons the numerous off springs of whom spread bhakthi. Then Malayadhvaja

retired to the katachala with his wife. When he died his wife grief-stricken

wished to enter his funeral pyre when a Brahmin came there and told her that

she was neither the wife of the king nor the husband of the lady in the city with nine gates. He said `Don't

you remember me your friend named Avijnaatha? You left me and went to enjoy the

worldly pleasures. Both of us are hamsas and not f different from each other.

The difference between us is that of bimba and prathibimba, the face and the

reflection. All was the maya created by Me." Narada ended the allegory of Puranjana

thus and explained the characters to Praacheena

Barhis and gave him the advice of

bhakthi.