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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 27]
illegitimately mainly become  varṇa-saṅkara . The  varṇa-saṅkara  population is irresponsible to the family, community and even to themselves. Formerly the  varṇa-saṅkara  population was checked by the observation of the reformatory method called  garbhādhāna-saṁskāra , a child-begetting religious ceremony. In this verse we find that although King Purañjana had begotten so many children, they were not  varṇa-saṅkara . All of them were good, well-behaved children, and they had good qualities like their father and mother.
Even though we may produce many good children, our desire for sex that is beyond the prescribed method is to be considered sinful. Too much enjoyment of any of the senses (not only sex) results in sinful activities. Therefore one has to become a  svāmī  or a  gosvāmī  at the end of his life. One may beget children up to the age of fifty, but after fifty, one must stop begetting children and should accept the  vānaprastha  order. In this way he must leave home and then become a  sannyāsī . A  sannyāsī 's title is  svāmī  or  gosvāmī , which means that he completely refrains from sense enjoyment. One should not accept the  sannyāsa  order whimsically; he must be fully confident that he can restrain his desires for sense gratification. King Purañjana's family life was, of course, very happy. As mentioned in these verses, he begot 1,100 sons and 110 daughters. Everyone desires to have more sons than daughters, and since the number of daughters was less than the number of sons, it appears that King Purañjana's family life was very comfortable and pleasing.
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स पञ्चालपतिः पुत्रान् पितृवंशविवर्धनान् । दारैः संयोजयामास दुहितुः सद्दर्शवैरैः ॥ ८ ॥
sa pañcāla-patiḥ putrān pitṛ-vaṁśa-vivardhanān dāraiḥ saṁyojayām āsa duhitṛḥ sadṛśair varaiḥ
saḥ—he; pañcāla-patiḥ—King of Pañcāla; putrān—sons; pitṛ-vaṁśa—paternal family; vivardhanān—increasing; dāraiḥ—with wives; saṁyojayām āsa—married; duhitṛḥ—daughters; sadṛśaiḥ—qualified; varaiḥ—with husbands.