putreṇa jayate lokÄn
iti satyavatī śrutiḥ
brahma-daṇá¸a-hataḥ pÄpo
yad veno 'tyatarat tamaḥ
putreṇa - by the son; jayate - one becomes victorious; lokÄn - all the heavenly planets; iti - thus; satya-vatÄ« - becomes true; Å›rutiḥ - the Vedas; brahma-daṇá¸a - by the curse of brÄhmaṇas; hataḥ - killed; pÄpaḥ - the most sinful; yat - as; venaḥ - the father of MahÄrÄja Pá¹›thu; ati - great; atarat - became delivered; tamaḥ - from the darkness of hellish life.
According to the Vedic version, there is a hellish planet called Put, and one who delivers a person from there is called putra. The purpose of marriage, therefore, is to have a putra, or son who is able to deliver his father, even if the father falls down to the hellish condition of Put. MahÄrÄja Pá¹›thu’s father, Vena, was a most sinful person and was therefore cursed to death by the brÄhmaṇas. Now all the great saintly persons, sages and brÄhmaṇas present in the meeting, after hearing from MahÄrÄja Pá¹›thu about his great mission in life, became convinced that the statement of the Vedas had been fully proved. The purpose of accepting a wife in religious marriage, as sanctioned in the Vedas, is to have a putra, a son qualified to deliver his father from the darkest region of hellish life. Marriage is not intended for sense gratification but for getting a son fully qualified to deliver his father. But if a son is raised to become an unqualified demon, how can he deliver his father from hellish life? It is therefore the duty of a father to become a Vaiṣṇava and raise his children to become Vaiṣṇavas; then even if by chance the father falls into a hellish life in his next birth, such a son can deliver him, as MahÄrÄja Pá¹›thu delivered his father.