Text 7] Attack by Candavega on the City of Puranjana 1255

wife Puranjani and begot a large number of children, and there is no
mention in these verses that he used contraceptive methods. According to
the Vedic scriptures the contraceptive method should be restraint in sex
life. It is not that one should indulge in unrestricted sex life and avoid
children by using some method to check pregnancy. If a man is in good
consciousness, he consults with his religious wife, and as a result of this
consultation, with intelligence, one advances in his ability to estimate the
value of life. In other words, if one is fortunate enough to have a good
conscientious wife, he can decide by mutual consultation that human life
is meant for advancing in Krsna consciousness and not for begetting a large
number of children. Children are called parinama, or by-products, and
when one consults his good intelligence he can see that his by-products
should be the expansion of his Krsna consciousness.

TEXT 7
gRacataerd = fanarzentt: |
siterip: TAT TANT | 911

duhitrr dasottara-Satam
pitr-matr-yasaskarth

Silaudarya-gunopetah
pauranjanyah praja-pate

duhitfh—daughters; dasa-uttara—ten more than; satam—one hundred;
pitr—like the father; matr—and mother; yasaskarih—glorified; sila—good
behavior; audarya—magnanimity; guna—good qualities; upetah— possessed
of; pauraijanyah—daughters of Purafijana; praja-pate—O Prajapati.

TRANSLATION

O Prajapati, King Pracinabarhisat, in this way King Puranjana also begot
110 daughters. All of these were equally glorified like the father and
mother. Their behavior was gentle, and they possessed magnanimity and
other good qualities.

PURPORT

Children begotten under the rules and regulations of the scriptures
generally become as good as the father and mother, but children born
