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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.4.17
tebhyas tasyām samabhavad
SYNONYMS
tebhyah — from all the Pracetās; tasyām — in her; samabhavat — was generated; dakshah — Daksha, the expert in begetting children; prācetasah — the son of the Pracetās; kila — indeed; yasya — of whom; prajā-visargena — by the generation of living entities; lokāh — the worlds; āpūritāh — filled; trayah — three.
TRANSLATION
In the womb of that girl the Pracetās all begot a son named Daksha, who filled the three worlds with living entities.
PURPORT
Daksha was first born during the reign of Svāyambhuva Manu, but because of offending Lord Śiva he was punished by having the head of a goat substituted for his own head. Thus insulted, he had to give up that body, and in the sixth manvantara, called the Cākshusha manvantara, he was born of the womb of Mārishā as Daksha. In this connection Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura quotes this verse:
"His previous body had been destroyed, but he, the same Daksha, inspired by the supreme will, created all the desired living entities in the Cākshusha manvantara." (Bhāg. 4.30.49) Thus Daksha regained his previous opulence and again begot thousands and millions of children to fill the three worlds.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness