Text 16] The Residents of Jambiadvipa Offer Prayers 181

TRANSLATION

Sukadeva Gosvami continued: In the tract of land called
Ketumala-varsa, Lord Visnu lives in the form of Kamadeva, only
for the satisfaction of His devotees. These include Laksmiji [the
goddess of fortune], the Prajapati Sarnvatsara and all of Sarnvat-
sara’s sons and daughters. The daughters of Prajapati are con-
sidered the controlling deities of the nights, and his sons are
considered the controllers of the days. The Prajapati’s offspring
number 36,000, one for each day and each night in the lifetime of
a human being. At the end of each year, the Prajapati’s daughters
become very agitated upon seeing the extremely effulgent disc of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thus they all suffer
miscarriages.

PURPORT

This Kamadeva, who appears as Krsna’s son named Pradyumna, is
visnu-tattva. How this is so is explained by Madhvacarya, who quotes
from the Brahmdaénda Purdna: kamadeva-sthitam visnum_ upaste.
Although this Kamadeva is visnu-tattva, His body is not spiritul but
material. Lord Visnu as Pradyumna or Kamadeva accepts a material
body, but He still acts spiritually. It does not make any difference
whether He accepts a spiritual or a material body: He can act spiritually
in any condition of existence. Mayavadi philosophers regard even Lord
Krsna’s body as material, but their opinions cannot impede the spiritual
activity of the Lord.

TEXT 16

ada gofsatiahioahataretaraae nara
fefagnoraasoanacaaer Ta
cratateaity waa 112611

ativa sulalita-gati-vildsa-vilasita-rucira-hdsa-lesavaloka-lilaya kircid-
uttambhita-sundara-bhri-mandala-subhaga-vadanaravinda-sriya
ramam ramayann indriyéni ramayate.
