The ancient Vedic concept of Nava-Dvara Pura — the human body as a city of nine gates — is one of Indian philosophy’s most sophisticated metaphors for embodied consciousness. But there is a profound problem hiding in plain sight: the template body is male. The female body possesses a tenth gate, the vaginal canal, yet the tradition universalizes nine as the human count, silently erasing female anatomy. Worse, in the Bhagavata Purana’s Puranjana allegory, the female principle appears not as the soul inhabiting the city, but as an object encountered within it — intelligence subordinated to a male sovereign.