TEXT 49
pururavasa evasit
trayi treta-mukhe nrpa
agnina prajaya raja
lokam gandharvam eyivan
SYNONYMS
pururavasahfrom King Pururava; evathus; asitthere was; trayithe Vedic principles of karma, jnana and upasana; treta-mukhein the beginning of the Treta-yuga; nrpaO King Pariksit; agninasimply by generating the fire of sacrifice; prajayaby his son; rajaKing Pururava; lokamto the planet; gandharvamof the Gandharvas; eyivanachieved.
TRANSLATION
O Maharaja Pariksit, 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 (krte yad dhyayato visnum). Indeed, everyone always meditated upon Lord Visnu, 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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