केतुमालेऽपि भगवान् कामदेवस्वरूपेण लक्ष्म्या: प्रियचिकीर्षया प्रजापतेर्दुहितृणां पुत्राणां तद्वर्षपतीनां पुरुषायुषाहोरात्रपरिसङ्ख्यानानां यासां गर्भा महापुरुषमहास्त्रतेजसोद्वेजितमनसां विध्वस्ता व्यसव: संवत्सरान्ते विनिपतन्ति ॥ १५ ॥
ketumale ’pi bhagavan kamadeva-svarupena laksmyah priya-cikirsaya prajapater duhitrnam putranam tad-varsa-patinam purusayusaho-ratra-parisankhyananam yasam garbha maha-purusa-mahastra-tejasodvejita-manasam vidhvasta vyasavah samvatsarante vinipatanti.
- ketumale
- in the tract of land known as Ketumala-varsa
- api
- also
- bhagavan
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu
- kamadeva-svarupena
- in the form of Kamadeva (Cupid or Pradyumna)
- laksmyah
- of the goddess of fortune
- priya-cikirsaya
- with a desire to bring about the satisfaction
- prajapateh
- of Prajapati
- duhitrnam
- of the daughters
- putranam
- of the sons
- tat-varsa-patinam
- the ruler of that land
- purusa-ayusa
- in a human lifetime (about one hundred years)
- ahah-ratra
- the days and nights
- parisankhyananam
- which equal in number
- yasam
- of whom (the daughters)
- garbhah
- fetuses
- maha-purusa
- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- maha-astra
- of the great weapon (the disc)
- tejasa
- by the effulgence
- udvejita-manasam
- whose minds are agitated
- vidhvastah
- ruined
- vyasavah
- dead
- samvatsara-ante
- at the end of the year
- vinipatanti
- fall down
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 Samvatsara and all of Samvatsara’s sons and daughters. The daughters of Prajapati are considered 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.