Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.18.15
కేతుమాలేఽపి భగవాన్ కామదేవస్వరూపేణ లక్ష్మ్యా: ప్రియచికీర్షయా ప్రజాపతేర్దుహితృణాం పుత్రాణాం తద్వర్షపతీనాం పురుషాయుషాహోరాత్రపరిసఙ్ఖ్యానానాం యాసాం గర్భా మహాపురుషమహాస్త్రతేజసోద్వేజితమనసాం విధ్వస్తా వ్యసవ: సంవత్సరాన్తే వినిపతన్తి ॥ ౧౫ ॥
ketumāle ’pi bhagavān kāmadeva-svarūpeṇa lakṣmyāḥ priya-cikīrṣayā prajāpater duhitṝṇāṁ putrāṇāṁ tad-varṣa-patīnāṁ puruṣāyuṣāho-rātra-parisaṅkhyānānāṁ yāsāṁ garbhā mahā-puruṣa-mahāstra-tejasodvejita-manasāṁ vidhvastā vyasavaḥ saṁvatsarānte vinipatanti.
[ketumaale ’pi bhagavaan kaamadeva-svaroopena lakshmyaah priya-chikeershayaa prajaapater duhitreenaam putraanaam tad-varsha-pateenaam purushaayushaaho-raatra-parisankhyaanaanaam yaasaam garbhaa mahaa-purusha-mahaastra-tejasodvejita-manasaam vidhvastaa vyasavah samvatsaraante vinipatanti.]
Word-for-word
ketumāle
—
in the tract of land known as Ketumāla-varṣa
api
—
also
bhagavān
—
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu
kāmadeva-svarūpeṇa
—
in the form of Kāmadeva (Cupid or Pradyumna)
lakṣmyāḥ
—
of the goddess of fortune
priya-cikīrṣayā
—
with a desire to bring about the satisfaction
prajāpateḥ
—
of Prajāpati
duhitṝṇām
—
of the daughters
putrāṇām
—
of the sons
tat-varṣa-patīnām
—
the ruler of that land
puruṣa-āyuṣā
—
in a human lifetime (about one hundred years)
ahaḥ-rātra
—
the days and nights
parisaṅkhyānānām
—
which equal in number
yāsām
—
of whom (the daughters)
garbhāḥ
—
fetuses
mahā-puruṣa
—
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
mahā-astra
—
of the great weapon (the disc)
tejasā
—
by the effulgence
udvejita-manasām
—
whose minds are agitated
vidhvastāḥ
—
ruined
vyasavaḥ
—
dead
saṁvatsara-ante
—
at the end of the year
vinipatanti
—
fall down.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
ketumāle ’pi bhagavān kāmadeva-svarūpeṇa lakṣmyāḥ priya-cikīrṣayā prajāpater duhitṝṇāṁ putrāṇāṁ tad-varṣa-patīnāṁ puruṣāyuṣāho-rātra-parisaṅkhyānānāṁ yāsāṁ garbhā mahā-puruṣa-mahāstra-tejasodvejita-manasāṁ vidhvastā vyasavaḥ saṁvatsarānte vinipatanti.
ketumāle
in the tract of land known as Ketumāla-varṣa
api
also
bhagavān
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu
kāmadeva-svarūpeṇa
in the form of Kāmadeva (Cupid or Pradyumna)
lakṣmyāḥ
of the goddess of fortune
priya-cikīrṣayā
with a desire to bring about the satisfaction
prajāpateḥ
of Prajāpati
duhitṝṇām
of the daughters
putrāṇām
of the sons
tat-varṣa-patīnām
the ruler of that land
puruṣa-āyuṣā
in a human lifetime (about one hundred years)
ahaḥ-rātra
the days and nights
parisaṅkhyānānām
which equal in number
yāsām
of whom (the daughters)
garbhāḥ
fetuses
mahā-puruṣa
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
mahā-astra
of the great weapon (the disc)
tejasā
by the effulgence
udvejita-manasām
whose minds are agitated
vidhvastāḥ
ruined
vyasavaḥ
dead
saṁvatsara-ante
at the end of the year
vinipatanti
fall down.
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In the tract of land called Ketumāla-varṣa, Lord Viṣṇu lives in the form of Kāmadeva, only for the satisfaction of His devotees. These include Lakṣmījī [the goddess of fortune], the Prajāpati Saṁvatsara and all of Saṁvatsara’s sons and daughters. The daughters of Prajāpati are considered the controlling deities of the nights, and his sons are considered the controllers of the days. The Prajāpati’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 Prajāpati’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 Kāmadeva, who appears as Kṛṣṇa’s son named Pradyumna, is viṣṇu-tattva. How this is so is explained by Madhvācārya, who quotes from the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa: kāmadeva-sthitaṁ viṣṇum upāste. Although this Kāmadeva is viṣṇu-tattva, His body is not spiritual but material. Lord Viṣṇu as Pradyumna or Kāmadeva 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. Māyāvādī philosophers regard even Lord Kṛṣṇa’s body as material, but their opinions cannot impede the spiritual activity of the Lord.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
In Ketumāla, the Lord resides with Lakṣmī in the form of Cupid to please Prajāpati’s daughters and sons, who are the masters of the land and who number 360,000, the human life span in days and nights. The daughters’ fetuses are aborted and die at the end of the year, destroyed because the daughters’ minds are agitated by the kāla-cakra of the Lord.
Kāmadeva means “one who plays (dīvyati for deva), using the pastimes of Cupid.” The Lord resides (verb should be added to the sanskṛt sentence) in Ketumāla with this form to please Prajāpati’s sons and daughters, the devatās presiding over the day and night. The śruti says samvatsaro vai prajāpatiḥ: Prajāpati is the year. Prajāpati is made of the year, or is the devatā presiding over the year. In mentioning the lifespan of man as a hundred years, the speaker of that time is speaking in anticipation of the lifespan of humans in Kali-yuga. By calculating a hundred years of days and nights, one attains a total of 360,000 days and nights. The fetuses of these 360,000 married daughters (which means nights along with the days of human life) are destroyed by the power of the kāla-cakra (mahā astra) of the Lord. The fetuses refer to the time with its minutes and seconds, or to the prārabdha-karma results of the inhabitants enjoying in that land. Because the nights act as the cause of enjoyment of karmas, they are called the fetuses of the daughters. At the end of gross time in the form of a year, with the end of enjoyment, they are aborted. These presiding deities of days and nights, the ordinary inhabitants of Ketumāla, by worshipping the Lord, will attain forms of the Lord’s devotees for serving the Lord in prema in Vaikuṇṭha. That should be understood to be the result of their worship.
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