SB 9.6.2
TEXT 2
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TEXT
रथीतरस्याप्रजस्य भार्यायां तन्तवे ऽर्थितः ।
अङ्गिरा जनयामास ब्रह्मवर्चस्विनः सुतान् ॥ २ ॥ rathitarasyaprajasya
bharyayam tantave 'rthitah
aṅgira janayam asa
brahma-varcasvinah sutan
rathitarasya-of Rathitara; aprajasya-who had no sons; bharyayam-unto his wife; tantave-for increasing offspring; arthitah-being requested; aṅgirah-the great sage Aṅgira; janayam asa-caused to take birth; brahma-varcasvinah-who had brahminical qualities; sutan-sons.
TRANSLATION
Rathitara had no sons, and therefore he requested the great sage Aṅgira to beget sons for him. Because of this request, Aṅgira begot sons in the womb of Rathitara's wife. All these sons were born with brahminical prowess.
PURPORT
In the Vedic age a man was sometimes called upon to beget sons in the womb of a lesser man's wife for the sake of better progeny. In such an instance, the woman is compared to an agricultural field. A person possessing an agricultural field may employ another person to produce food grains from it, but because the grains are produced from the land, they are considered the property of the owner of the land. Similarly, a woman was sometimes allowed to be impregnated by someone other than her husband, but the sons born of her would then become her husband's sons. Such sons were called ksetra-jata. Because Rathitara had no sons, he took advantage of this method.
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