The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King, after bewildering her husband in dif ferent ways and bringing him under her control, the wife of King Puranjana gave him all satis faction and enjoyed sex life with him (1).The Queen took her bath and dressed herself nicely with all auspicious garments and ornaments. After taking food and becoming completely satisfied, she returned to the King. Upon seeing her beautifully decorated attractive face, the King welcomed her with all devotion (2).Queen Purañjanī embraced the King, and the King also responded by embracing her shoulders. In this way, in a solitary place, they enjoyed joking words. Thus King Puranjana became very much captivated by his beautiful wife and deviated from his good sense. He for got that the passing of days and nights meant that his span of life was being reduced without profit (3).
In this way, increasingly over whelmed by illusion, King Puranjana, although advanced in consciousness, remained always lying down with his head on the pillow of his wife’s arms. In this way he considered woman to be his ultimate life and soul. Becoming thus overwhelmed by the mode of ignorance, he could not understand the meaning of self-reali zation, whether regarding his own self or the Supreme Personality of Godhead (4). My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, in this way King Puranjana, with his heart full of lust and sinful reactions, began to enjoy sex with his wife, and in this way his new life and youth ex pired in half a moment (5).The great sage Nārada then addressed King Prācīnabarhiṣat: O one whose life span is great [virāṭ], in this way King Puranjana begot 1,100 sons within the womb of his wife, Purañjanī. However, in this business he passed away half of his life span (6).
O Prajāpati, King Prācīnabarhiṣat, in this way King Puranjana also begot 110 daughters. All of these were equally glorified like the fa ther and mother. Their behavior was gentle, and they possessed magnanimity and other good qualities (7). After this, King Puranjana, King of the Pañcāla country, in order to increase the descendants of his paternal family, married his sons with qualified wives and married his daughters with qualified husbands (8).Of these many sons, each produced hundreds and hun dreds of grandsons. In this way the whole city of Pañcāla became overcrowded by these sons and grandsons of King Puranjana (9).These sons and grandsons were virtually plunderers of King Puranjana’s riches, including his home, treasury, servants, secretaries and all other par aphernalia. Puranjana’s attachment for these things was very deep-rooted (10).
The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, like you King Puranjana also became implicated in so many desires. Thus he worshiped demigods, forefathers and social leaders with various sacrifices which were all very ghastly because they were inspired by the desire to kill animals (11).Thus King Pu ranjana, being attached to fruitive activities [karma-kāṇḍīya] as well as kith and kin, and being obsessed with polluted consciousness, eventually arrived at that point not very much liked by those who are overly attached to mate rial things (12). O King! In Gandharvaloka there is a king named Caṇḍavega. Under him there are 360 very powerful Gandharva soldiers (13).Along with Caṇḍavega were as many female Gandharvīs as there were soldiers, and all of them repetitively plundered all the parapherna lia for sense enjoyment (14).When King Gandharva-rāja [Caṇḍavega] and his followers began to plunder the city of Puranjana, a snake with five hoods began to defend the city (15).
The five-hooded serpent, the superinten dent and protector of the city of King Pu ranjana, fought with the Gandharvas for one hundred years. He fought alone, with all of them, although they numbered 720 (16).Be cause he had to fight alone with so many sol diers, all of whom were great warriors, the ser pent with five hoods became very weak. Seeing that his most intimate friend was weakening, King Puranjana and his friends and citizens liv ing within the city all became very anxious (17).King Puranjana collected taxes in the city known as Pañcāla and thus was able to engage in sexual indulgence. Being completely under the control of women, he could not understand that his life was passing away and that he was reaching the point of death (18). My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, at this time the daughter of formidable Time was seeking her husband throughout the three worlds. Alt hough no one agreed to accept her, she came (19).
The daughter of Time [Jarā] was very un fortunate. Consequently she was known as Durbhagā [“ill-fated”]. However, she was once pleased with a great king, and because the king accepted her, she granted him a great benedic tion(20).When I once came to this earth from Brahmaloka, the highest planetary system, the daughter of Time, wandering over the universe, met me. Knowing me to be an avowed brah macārī, she became lusty and proposed that I accept her (21).The great sage Nārada contin ued: When I refused to accept her request, she became very angry at me and cursed me se verely. Because I refused her request, she said that I would not be able to stay in one place for a long time (22).After she was thus disap pointed by me, with my permission she ap proached the King of the Yavanas, whose name was Bhaya, or Fear, and she accepted him as her husband (23).
Approaching the King of the Yavanas, Kālakanyā addressed him as a great hero, saying: My dear sir, you are the best of the untouchables. I am in love with you, and I want you as my husband. I know that no one is baffled if he makes friends with you (24).One who does not give charity according to the cus toms or injunctions of the scriptures and one who does not accept charity in that way are considered to be in the mode of ignorance. Such persons follow the path of the foolish. Surely they must lament at the end (25).Kālakanyā continued: O gentle one, I am now present before you to serve you. Please ac cept me and thus show me mercy. It is a gentle man’s greatest duty to be compassionate upon a person who is distressed (26).
After hearing the statement of Kālakanyā, daughter of Time, the King of the Yavanas be gan to smile and devise a means for executing his confidential duty on behalf of providence. He then addressed Kālakanyā as follows (27). The King of the Yavanas replied: After much consideration, I have arrived at a husband for you. Actually, as far as everyone is concerned, you are inauspicious and mischievous. Since no one likes you, how can anyone accept you as his wife? (28) This world is a product of frui tive activities. Therefore you may impercepti bly attack people in general. Helped by my sol diers, you can kill them without opposition (29).The King of the Yavanas continued: Here is my brother Prajvāra. I now accept you as my sister. I shall employ both of you, as well as my dangerous soldiers, to act imperceptibly within this world (30).
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