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The Renunciation of Kardama Muni
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PURPORT
The words  hamsena yānena  are very significant here.  Hamsa-yāna , the airplane by which Brahmā travels all over outer space, resembles a swan. Brahmā is also known as Hamsa because he can grasp the essence of everything. His abode is called  tri-dhāma paramam . There are three divisions of the universe—the upper planetary system, the middle planetary system and the lower planetary system—but his abode is above even Siddhaloka, the upper planetary system. He returned to his own planet with the four Kumāras and Nārada because they were not going to be married. The other  ṛṣis  who came with him, such as Marīci and Atri, remained there because they were to be married to the daughters of Kardama, but his other sons, Sanat, Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanātana and Nārada, went back with him in his swan-shaped airplane. The four Kumāras and Nārada are  naiṣṭhika-brahmacārīs .  Naiṣṭhika-brahmacārī  means one who never wastes his semina at any time. They were not to attend the marriage ceremony of their other brothers, Marīci and the other sages, and therefore they went back with their father, Hamsa.
TEXT 21
गते शतधृतौ क्षत्रः कर्दमस्तेन चोदितः । यथोदितं स्वदुहितृः प्रादाद्विश्वसृजां ततः ॥२१॥
gate śata-dhṛtau kṣattaḥ kardamas tena coditaḥ yathoditam sva-duhitṛḥ prādād viśva-sṛjām tataḥ
gate—after he departed; śata-dhṛtau—Lord Brahmā; kṣattaḥ—O Vidura; kardamaḥ—Kardama Muni; tena—by him; coditaḥ—ordered; yathā-uditam—as told; sva-duhitṛḥ—his own daughters; prādāt—handed over; viśva-sṛjām—to the creators of the world's population; tataḥ—thereafter.
TRANSLATION
O Vidura, after the departure of Brahmā, Kardama Muni, having been ordered by Brahmā, handed over his nine daughters, as instructed, to the nine great sages who created the population of the world.