CHAPTER THIRTY- ONE
Lord Kapila's Instructions on the Movements of the Living Entities
TEXT 1
श्रीभगवानुवाच
कर्मणा दैवनेत्रेण जन्तुदेहोपपत्तये ।
स्त्रियाः प्रविष्ट उदरं पुंसो रेतःकणाश्रयः ॥ १ ॥
śrī bhagavān uvāca karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur dehopapattaye striyāḥ praviṣṭa udaram pumso retaḥ-kaṇāśrayaḥ
śrī bhagavān uvāca—the Supreme Personality of Godhead said;  karmaṇā —by the result of work;  daiva-netreṇa —under the supervision of the Lord;  jantuḥ —the living entity;  deha —a body;  upapattaye —for obtaining;  striyāḥ —of a woman;  praviṣṭaḥ —enters;  udaram —the womb;  pumsaḥ —of a man;  retaḥ —of semina;  kaṇa —a particle;  āśrayaḥ —dwelling in.
TRANSLATION
The Personality of Godhead said: Under the supervision of the Supreme Lord and according to the result of his work, the living entity, the soul, is made to enter into the womb of a woman through the particle of male semina to assume a particular type of body.
PURPORT
As stated in the last chapter, after suffering different kinds of hellish conditions, a man comes again to the human form of body. The same topic is continued in this chapter. In order to give a particular type of
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