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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
ketumale—in the tract of land known as Ketumala-varsa; api—also; bhagavan—the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu; kamadeva-svarupena—in the form of Kamadeva (Cupid or Pradyumna); laksmyah—of the goddess of fortune; priya-cikirsaya—with a desire to bring about the satisfaction; prajapateh—of Prajapati; duhitrnam—of the daughters; putranam—of the sons; tat-varsa-patinam—the ruler of that land; purusa-ayusa—in a human lifetime (about one hundred years); ahah-ratra—the days and nights; parisankhyananam—which equal in number; yasam—of whom (the daughters); garbhah—fetuses; maha-purusa—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; maha-astra—of the great weapon (the disc); tejasa—by the effulgence; udvejita-manasam—whose minds are agitated; vidhvastah—ruined; vyasavah—dead; samvatsara-ante—at the end of the year; vinipatanti—fall 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 Samvatsara’s 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 Prajapati’s 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 Prajapati’s 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 Krsna’s 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 Krsna’s body as material, but their opinions cannot impede the spiritual activity of the Lord.
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