Text 21] The Renunciation of Kardama Muni 971
PURPORT

The words hamsena ydnena are very significant here. Hamsa-yana,
the airplane by which Brahma travels all over outer space, resembles a
swan. Bralima is also known as Hamsa because he can grasp the essence of
everything. His abode is called tri-dhdma 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 Kumaras and Narada because they were not going to be
married. The other rsis who came with him, such as Marici and Atri,
remained there because they were to be married to the daughters of
Kardama, but his other sons, Sanat, Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and
Narada, went back with him in his swan-shaped airplane. The four Kumaras
and Narada .are naisthika-brahmacaris. Naisthika-brahmacari means one
who never wastes his semina at any time. They were not to attend the
marriage ceremony of their other brothers, Marici and the other sages, and
therefore they went back with their father, Hamisa.

TEXT 21
TA ITU Ta: Hata Sifea |
waited wagfeq: Meneagai Ta: 1821
gate sata-dhrtau ksattah
kardamas tena coditah
yathoditam sva-duhitrh
pradad visva-srjarn tatah

gale—after he departed; sata-dhrtau—Lord Brahma; ksattah—O Vidura;
kardamaft—Kardama Muni; tena—by him; coditah—ordered; yatha-uditam—
as told; sva-duhit7h—his own daughters; pradat—handed over; visva-srjam—
to the creators of the world’s population; tatah—thereafter.

TRANSLATION

O Vidura, after the departure of Brahma, Kardama Muni, having been
ordered by Brahma, handed over his nine daughters, as instructed, to the
nine great sages who created the population of the world.
