SB 9.14.49 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

पुरूरवस एवासीत् त्रयी त्रेतामुखे नृप । अग्निना प्रजया राजा लोकं गान्धर्वमेयिवान् ॥ ४९ ॥

Verse text

purūravasa evāsīt trayī tretā-mukhe nṛpa agninā prajayā rājā lokaṁ gāndharvam eyivān

Synonyms

purūravasaḥ — from King Purūravā ; eva — thus ; āsīt — there was ; trayī — the Vedic principles of karma, jṣāna and upāsanā ; tretā — mukhe — in the beginning of the Tretā-yuga ; nṛpa — O King Parīkṣit ; agninā — simply by generating the fire of sacrifice ; prajayā — by his son ; rājā — King Purūravā ; lokam — to the planet ; gāndharvam — of the Gandharvas ; eyivān — achieved .

Translation

O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, at the beginning of Tretā-yuga, King Purūravā inaugurated a karma-kāṇḍa sacrifice. Thus Purūravā, who considered the yajṣic fire his son, was able to go to Gandharvaloka as he desired.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

O king! At the beginning of Tretā-yuga, King Purūravā inaugurated karma-kāṇḍa sacrifice. Thus Purūravā, by sacrifice, was able to go to Gandharvaloka. At the beginning of Tretā-yuga in Svāyambhuva Manvantara, the path of karma was started by Purūravā starting. It should be understood that the path of karma was introduced at the beginning of each Tretā-yuga by different kings such as Priyavarta in the cycle of four yugas. Thus ends the commentary on the Fourteenth Chapter of the Ninth Canto of the Bhāgavatam for the pleasure of the devotees, in accordance with the previous ācāryas. Chapter Fifteen Paraśurāma Kills Kārtavīryārjuna

Purport

In Satya-yuga, Lord Nārāyaṇa was worshiped by meditation ( kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇum ). Indeed, everyone always meditated upon Lord Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa, and achieved every success by this process of meditation. In the next yuga, Tretā-yuga, the performance of yajṣa began ( tretāyāṁ yajato mukhaiḥ ). Therefore this verse says, trayī tretā-mukhe. Ritualistic ceremonies are generally called fruitive activities. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that in Tretā-yuga, beginning in the Svāyambhuva-manvantara, ritualistic fruitive activities were similarly manifested from Priyavrata, etc. Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Ninth Canto, Fourteenth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “King Purūravā Enchanted by Urvaśī.”