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illegitimately mainly become varna-sanikara. The varna-sankara population
is irresponsible to the family, community and even to themselves. Formerly
the varna-sankara population was checked by the observation of the
reformatory method called garbhadhana-samskara, a child-begetting re-
ligious ceremony. In this verse we find that although King Puranjana had
begotten so many children, they were not varna-sarikara. 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 svami or a gosvami 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 vanaprastha order.
In this way he must leave home and then become a sannyasi. A sannyasi’s
title is suami or gosvami, which means that he completely refrains from
sense enjoyment. One should not accept the sannyasa order whimsically;
he must be fully confident that he can restrain his desires for sense gratifi-
cation. King Purarijana’s family life was, of course, very happy. As men-
tioned 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 Puranjana’s
family life was very comfortable and pleasing.

TEXT 8
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at: datrarra afta: TER? 1c I
sa pancala-patih putran
pitr-vamsa-vivardhanan
daraih sanuyojayam asa
duhitrh sadrsair varaih

sah—he; pafcala-patih—King of Pancala; putran—sons; pitr-vamsa—
paternal family ; vivardhanan— increasing; daraih—with wives; samyojayam
asa—married; duhityh—daughters; sadrsaih—qualified;  varaih—with
husbands.
