Text 9] Attack by Candavega on the City of Puranjana 1257

TRANSLATION

After this, King Puranjana, King of the Paricala country, in order to
increase the descendants of his paternal family, married his sons with
qualified wives and married his daughters with qualified husbands.

PURPORT

According to the Vedic system, everyone should marry.One has to
accept a wife because a wife will produce children, and the children in
their turn will offer foodstuffs and funeral ceremonies so that the fore-
fathers, wherever they may live, will be made happy. The offering of
oblations in the name of Lord Visnu is called pindodaka, and it is necessary
that the descendants of a family offer pinda to the forefathers.

Not only was Purafjana, the King of Paricala, satisfied in his own sex
life, but he arranged for the sex life of his 1,100 sons and 110 daughters.
In this way one can elevate an aristocratic family to the platform of a
dynasty. It is significant in this verse that Purafijana got both sons and
daughters married. It is the duty of a father and mother to arrange for the
marriage of their sons and daughters. That is the obligation in Vedic
society. Sons and daughters should not be allowed freedom to intermingle
with the opposite sex unless they are married. This Vedic social organi-
zation is very good in that it stops the promulgation of illicit sex life, or
varna-sarikara, which appears under different names in this present day.
Unfortunately in this age although the father and mother are anxious to
get their children married, the children refuse to get married by the
arrangement of the parents. Consequently the number of varna-sarikara
has increased throughout the world under different names.

TEXT 9

GAT AAT TAT THR TS TTT |
aq qhet da: gaey aafea: 181

putranam cabhavan putra
ekaikasya Satam satam

yair vai pauranjano vamsah
panicalesu samedhitah
