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TEXT 15
ketumale pi bhagavan kamadeva-svarupena laksmyah priya-cikirsaya prajapater duhitrnam putranam tad-varsa-patinam purusayusaho-ratra-parisankhyananam yasam garbha maha-purusa-mahastra-tejasodvejita-manasam vidhvasta vyasavah samvatsarante vinipatanti.
SYNONYMS
ketumalein the tract of land known as Ketumala-varsa; apialso; bhagavanthe Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu; kamadeva-svarupenain the form of Kamadeva (Cupid or Pradyumna); laksmyahof the goddess of fortune; priya-cikirsayawith a desire to bring about the satisfaction; prajapatehof Prajapati; duhitrnamof the daughters; putranamof the sons; tat-varsa-patinamthe ruler of that land; purusa-ayusain a human lifetime (about one hundred years); ahah-ratrathe days and nights; parisankhyananamwhich equal in number; yasamof whom (the daughters); garbhahfetuses; maha-purusaof the Supreme Personality of Godhead; maha-astraof the great weapon (the disc); tejasaby the effulgence; udvejita-manasamwhose minds are agitated; vidhvastahruined; vyasavahdead; samvatsara-anteat the end of the year; vinipatantifall down.
TRANSLATION
Sukadeva Gosvami continued: In the tract of land called Ketumala-varsa, Lord Visnu lives in the form of Kamadeva, only for the satisfaction of His devotees. These include Laksmiji [the goddess of fortune], the Prajapati Samvatsara and all of Samvatsaras sons and daughters. The daughters of Prajapati are considered the controlling deities of the nights, and his sons are considered the controllers of the days. The Prajapatis offspring number 36,000, one for each day and each night in the lifetime of a human being. At the end of each year, the Prajapatis daughters become very agitated upon seeing the extremely effulgent disc of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thus they all suffer miscarriages.
PURPORT
This Kamadeva, who appears as Krsnas son named Pradyumna, is visnu-tattva. How this is so is explained by Madhvacarya, who quotes from the Brahmanda Purana: kamadeva-sthitam visnum upaste. Although this Kamadeva is visnu-tattva, His body is not spiritual but material. Lord Visnu as Pradyumna or Kamadeva accepts a material body, but He still acts spiritually. It does not make any difference whether He accepts a spiritual or a material body; He can act spiritually in any condition of existence. Mayavadi philosophers regard even Lord Krsnas body as material, but their opinions cannot impede the spiritual activity of the Lord.
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