‘Puranjana is the jiva, the human being, and his great friend, the brahmin, is Ishvara, the Lord. The woman who controlled Puranjana is buddhi, the intellect. Puranjana’s city had nine gates, and so do our bodies: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, a mouth, and two openings for answering the call of nature. With the help of the buddhi, the jiva enjoys sense objects. Prana, the vital energy with its five functions, is the five-headed snake. The 360 gandharvas and gandharvis are the days and nights of the year; Chandavega, the gandharva king, is time, the destroyer of all; Bhaya, the foreign
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