Text 57]
Purañjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life
1353
pañcārāmam nava-dvāram eka-pālam tri-koṣṭhakam ṣaṭ-kulam pañca-vipaṇam pañca-prakṛti strī-dhavam
pañca-ārāmam—five gardens; nava-dvāram—nine gates; eka—one; pālam—protector; tri—three; koṣṭhakam—apartments; ṣaṭ—six; kulam—families; pañca—five; vipaṇam—stores; pañca—five; prakṛti—material elements; strī—woman; dhavam—master.
TRANSLATION
In that city [the material body] there are five gardens, nine gates, one protector, three apartments, six families, five stores, five material elements, and one woman who is lord of the house.
TEXT 57
पञ्चेन्द्रियार्था आरामा द्वारः प्राणा नव प्रभो । तेजोऽब्रभानि कोष्ठानि कुलमिन्द्रियसंग्रहः ॥५७॥
pañcendriyārthā ārāmā dvāraḥ prāṇā nava prabho tejo-'bannāni koṣṭhāni kulam indriya-saṅgrahaḥ
pañca—five; indriya-arthāḥ—sense objects; ārāmāḥ—the gardens; dvāraḥ—gates; prāṇāḥ—apertures of the senses; nava—nine; prabho—O King; tejaḥ-ap—fire, water; annāni—food grains or earth; koṣṭhāni—apartments; kulam—families; indriya-saṅgrahaḥ—five senses and the mind.
TRANSLATION
My dear friend, the five gardens are the five objects of sense enjoyment, and the protector is the life air, which passes through the nine gates. The three apartments are the chief ingredients—fire, water, and earth. The six families are the aggregate total of the mind and five senses.
PURPORT
The five senses that acquire knowledge are sight, taste, smell, sound and touch, and these act through the nine gates—the two eyes, two ears, one