Text 16] Attack by Candavega on the City of Puranjana 1269

creating various types of facilities, he chews the chewed. Whether we
squeeze sugar out of the sugar cane with our teeth or a machine, the
result is the same—sugar cane juice. We may discover many ways to
squeeze the juice out of the sugar cane, but the result is the same.

TEXT 15

a Wangan: qeag at
eae ae eT: 1241

te canda-veganucarah
purafjana-puram yada

hartum arebhire tatra
pratyasedhat prajagarah

te—all of them; canda-vega—of Candavega; anucarah—followers; puraiijana
—of King Puranjana; puram—city; yada—when;, hartum—to plunder;
arebhire—began; tatra—there; pratyasedhat— defended; prajagarah—the big
serpent.

TRANSLATION

When King Gandharva-raja [Candavega] and his followers began to
plunder the city of Puranjana, a snake with five hoods began to defend
the city.

PURPORT

When one is sleeping, the life air remains active in different dreams.
The five hoods of the snake indicate that the life air is surrounded by five
kinds of air known as prana, apana, vyana, udana and samana. When the
body is inactive, the prana, or the life air, is active. Up to the age of fifty
one can actively work for sense gratification, but after the fiftieth year
one’s energy decreases, although one can with great strain work for two or
three more years—perhaps up to the fifty-fifth year. Thus the fifty-fifth
year is generally taken by government regulations as the final year for re-
tirement. The energy, which is fatigued after fifty years, is figuratively
described herein as a serpent with five hoods.

TEXT 16
& eat: atta faen Tada: |
TTT | TTT eat NRK
