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The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King, after bewildering her husband in different ways and bringing him under her …

The Queen took her bath and dressed herself nicely with all auspicious garments and ornaments. After taking food and becoming …

Queen Purañjanī embraced the King, and the King also responded by embracing her shoulders. In this way, in a solitary …

In this way, increasingly overwhelmed by illusion, King Purañjana, although advanced in consciousness, remained always lying down with his head …

My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, in this way King Purañjana, with his heart full of lust and sinful reactions, began to …

The great sage Nārada then addressed King Prācīnabarhiṣat: O one whose life span is great [virāṭ], in this way King …

O Prajāpati, King Prācīnabarhiṣat, in this way King Purañjana also begot 110 daughters. All of these were equally glorified like …

After this, King Purañjana, King of the Pañcāla country, in order to increase the descendants of his paternal family, married …

Of these many sons, each produced hundreds and hundreds of grandsons. In this way the whole city of Pañcāla became …

These sons and grandsons were virtually plunderers of King Purañjana’s riches, including his home, treasury, servants, secretaries and all other …

The great sage Nārada continued: My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, like you King Purañjana also became implicated in so many desires. …

Thus King Purañjana, being attached to fruitive activities [karma-kāṇḍīya] as well as kith and kin, and being obsessed with polluted …

O King! In Gandharvaloka there is a king named Caṇḍavega. Under him there are 360 very powerful Gandharva soldiers.

Along with Caṇḍavega were as many female Gandharvīs as there were soldiers, and all of them repetitively plundered all the …

When King Gandharva-rāja [Caṇḍavega] and his followers began to plunder the city of Purañjana, a snake with five hoods began …

The five-hooded serpent, the superintendent and protector of the city of King Purañjana, fought with the Gandharvas for one hundred …

Because he had to fight alone with so many soldiers, all of whom were great warriors, the serpent with five …

King Purañjana collected taxes in the city known as Pañcāla and thus was able to engage in sexual indulgence. Being …

My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, at this time the daughter of formidable Time was seeking her husband throughout the three worlds. …

The daughter of Time [Jarā] was very unfortunate. Consequently she was known as Durbhagā [“ill-fated”]. However, she was once pleased …