[INDOLOGY] 9 gate city

[Howard Resnick]

Thank you!
Howard

On Jun 12, 2014, at 6:42 AM, Gruenendahl, Reinhold <gruenen at sub.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:

> This is what I found in "Upanisad and Veda":
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> navadvāre pure dehī haṃso lelāyate bahiḥ /
> vaśī sarvasya lokasya sthāvarasya carasya ca // SvetUp_3.18 //
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> (AVŚ_10,2.31a) aṣṭā́cakrā návadvārā devā́nāṃ pū́r ayodhyā́ |
> (AVŚ_10,2.31c) tásyāṃ hiraṇyáyaḥ kóśaḥ svargó jyótiṣā́vr̥taḥ ||31||
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> The "9 gate city" appears in a host of other texts, too.
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> Reinhold Grünendahl
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> Greetings to all,
> 
> Bhagavad-gita 5.13 speaks of the embodied soul living in the “city of nine gates,” nava-dvAre pure dehI.
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> I believe we find this metaphor in the Upanisads and perhaps other Vedic literature as well. Can anyone provide specific references?
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> Sincere thanks!
> Howard
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