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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 12]
chāyāyāḥ —by the shadow;  kardamaḥ —Kardama Muni;  jajñe —became manifested;  devahūtyāḥ —of Devahūti;  patiḥ —husband;  prabhuḥ —the master;  manasaḥ —from the mind;  dehataḥ —from the body;  ca —also;  idam —this;  jajñe —developed;  viśva —the universe;  kṛtaḥ —of the creator;  jagat —cosmic manifestation.
TRANSLATION
Sage Kardama, husband of the great Devahūti, was manifested from the shadow of Brahmā. Thus all became manifested either from the body or the mind of Brahmā.
PURPORT
Although one of the three modes of material nature is always prominent, they are never represented unalloyed by one another. Even in the most prominent existence of the two lower qualities, the modes of passion and ignorance, there is sometimes a tinge of the mode of goodness. Therefore all the sons generated from the body or the mind of Brahmā were in the modes of passion and ignorance, but some of them, like Kardama, were born in the mode of goodness. Nārada was born in the transcendental state of Brahmā.
TEXT 28
वाचं दुहितरं तन्वीं स्वयम्भूर्हतीं मनः । अकामां चकमेक्षतः सकाम इति नः श्रुतम् ॥२८॥
vācam duhitaram tanvīm svayam-bhūr haratīm manaḥ akāmām cakame kṣattaḥ sakāma iti naḥ śrutam
vācam —Vāk;  duhitaram —unto the daughter;  tanvīm —born of his body;  svayam-bhūḥ —Brahmā;  haratīm —attracting;  manaḥ —his mind;  akāmām —without being sexually inclined;  cakame —desired;  kṣattaḥ —O Vidura;  sa-kāmaḥ —being sexually inclined;  iti —thus;  naḥ —we;  śrutam —have heard.
TRANSLATION
O Vidura, we have heard that Brahmā had a daughter named Vāk who