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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 4.27.13
चण्डवेग इति ख्यातो गन्धर्वाधिपतिर्नृप ।
गन्धर्वास्तस्य बलिन: षष्ट्युत्तरशतत्रयम् ॥ १३ ॥
caṇḍavega iti khyāto
gandharvādhipatir nṛpa
gandharvās tasya balinaḥ
ṣaṣṭy-uttara-śata-trayam
O King! In Gandharvaloka there is a king named Caṇḍavega. Under him there are 360 very powerful Gandharva soldiers.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Caṇḍavega represents time, which passes very swiftly. His 360 soldiers represent the days of a year, carrying away our life span.
What we call advancing in age is actually losing the days of our life. This loss happens almost imperceptibly to both men and women.
Time spent in devotional service cannot be taken away by the sun. By giving up sense gratification and engaging in devotional service, one can gradually enter the eternal kingdom of God.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of SB 4.27.13 quotesSB 2.3.17
As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.3.17), āyur harati vai puṁsām udyann astaṁ ca yann asau.
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
Worldly absorption → Sobering awareness. The mind's identification with material life becomes visible.
Chapters 24–29 of Canto 4: Śiva's song and the allegory of Purañjana. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc
Purañjana grows deeply attached to family while Caṇḍavega’s soldiers attack his city.
Back to this verse in chapter 4.27Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.
The subject this verse serves and the themes it speaks of.
Nirodha · Returning home, back to Godhead
What happens when everything here comes to an end? · Subject 8 of 10
Rāja-dharma · Devotional leadership
Serving and protecting through responsibility. · Theme in SB 4.27
In this verse: “king”, “kingdom”
Moha · Material attachment
The pull of ego, desire and impermanent relationships. · Theme in SB 4.27
In this verse: “sense gratification”
Bhakti · Devotion and loving service
How devotion reorganizes desire and action. · Theme in SB 4.27
In this verse: “devotional service”
Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How much of my day is spent on something that time cannot take away?
Set aside five minutes today for devotional service rather than sense gratification.
The story this chapter belongs to.
Keep going: stories told elsewhere in the Bhāgavatam that this verse or its purport brings in.
The purport quotesSB 2.3.17
Found where this verse or Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport names them. See all of chapter 4.27's connections
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