CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Purañjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life
TEXT 1
नारद उवाच
सैनिका भयनाम्नो ये बर्हिष्मन् दिष्टकारिणः । प्रज्वारकालकन्याम्यां विचेस्तवनोभिमाम् ॥ १ ॥
nārada uvāca sainikā bhaya-nāmno ye barhiṣman diṣṭa-kāriṇaḥ prajvāra-kāla-kanyābhyām vicerur avanīm imām
nāradaḥ uvāca —the great sage Nārada continued to speak;  sainikāḥ —the soldiers;  bhaya-nāmnaḥ —of Bhaya (fearfulness);  ye —all of them who;  barhiṣman —O King Prācīnabarhiṣat;  diṣṭa-kāriṇaḥ —the order carriers of death;  prajvāra —with Prajvāra;  kāla-kanyābhyām —and with Kālakanyā;  viceruḥ —traveled;  avanīm —on earth;  imām — this.
TRANSLATION
The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, afterwards, the King of the Yavanas, whose name is fear itself, as well as his soldiers, Prajvāra and Kālakanyā, began to travel all over the world.
PURPORT
The period of life just prior to death is certainly very dangerous because usually at this time people are attacked by the weakness of old age as well as many kinds of disease. The diseases that attack the body are compared here to soldiers. These soldiers are not ordinary soldiers, for they are
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