1258 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 27

putranam—of the sons; ca—also; abhavan—were produced; putrah—sons;
eka-ekasya—of each one; Satam—hundred; satam—hundred; yaih— by whom;
vai—certainly; pauranjanah—of King Purafjana; vamsah—family; pancalesu
—in the land of Payicala; samedhitah—greatly increased.

TRANSLATION

Of these many sons, each produced hundreds and hundreds of grandsons.
In this way the whole city of Paricala became overcrowded by these sons
and grandsons of King Purarijana.

PURPORT

We must remember that Puranjana is the living entity, and the city
Paricala is the body. The body is the field of activity for the living entity,
as stated in Bhagavad-gita: ksetra-ksetrajna (Bg. 13.27). There are two
constituents: one is the living entity (ksetra-jia), and the other is thebody
of the living entity (ksetra). Any living entity can know that he is covered
by the body if he only contemplates the body a little bit. Just with a little
contemplation he can come to understand that the body is his possession.
One can understand this by practical experience and by the authority of
the sastras. In Bhagavad-gita it is said: dehino ’smin yatha dehe (Bg. 2.13).
The proprietor of the body, the soul, is within the body. The body is taken
as the paricala-desa, or the field of activities wherein the living entity can
enjoy the senses in their relationship to the five sense objects—namely,
gandha, rasa, riipa, sparsa and sabda—that is, sense objects made out of
earth, water, fire, air and sky. Within this material world covered by the
material body of subtle and gross matter, every living entity creates actions
and reactions, which are herein known allegorically as sons and grandsons.
There are two kinds of actions and reactions—namely, pious and impious.
In this way our material existence becomes coated by different actions and
reactions. In this regard, Srila Narottama dasa Thakura states:

karma-kanda, jnana-kanda, kevala visera bhanda,
amrta baliya yeba khaya

nana yoni sada phire, kadarya bhaksana kare,
tara janma adhah-pate yaya

‘‘Fruitive activities and mental speculation are simply cups of poison.
Whoever drinks of them, thinking them to be nectar, must struggle very
hard life after life, in different types of bodies. Such a person eats all kinds
