Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.14.49

pururavasa evasit

trayi treta-mukhe nripa

agnina prajaya raja

lokam gandharvam eyivan

SYNONYMS

pururavasah -- from King Pururava; eva -- thus; asit -- there was; trayi -- the Vedic principles of karma, jnana and upasana; treta-mukhe -- in the beginning of the Treta-yuga; nripa -- O King Parikshit; agnina -- simply by generating the fire of sacrifice; prajaya -- by his son; raja -- King Pururava; lokam -- to the planet; gandharvam -- of the Gandharvas; eyivan -- achieved.

TRANSLATION

O Maharaja Parikshit, at the beginning of Treta-yuga, King Pururava inaugurated a karma-kanda sacrifice. Thus Pururava, who considered the yajnic fire his son, was able to go to Gandharvaloka as he desired.

PURPORT

In Satya-yuga, Lord Narayana was worshiped by meditation (krite yad dhyayato vishnum). Indeed, everyone always meditated upon Lord Vishnu, Narayana, and achieved every success by this process of meditation. In the next yuga, Treta-yuga, the performance of yajna began (tretayam yajato mukhaih). Therefore this verse says, trayi treta-mukhe. Ritualistic ceremonies are generally called fruitive activities. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says that in Treta-yuga, beginning in the Svayambhuva-manvantara, ritualistic fruitive activities were similarly manifested from Priyavrata, etc.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Ninth Canto, Fourteenth Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "King Pururava Enchanted by Urvasi."

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