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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.14.49

పురూరవస ఏవాసీత్ త్రయీ త్రేతాముఖే నృప । అగ్నినా ప్రజయా రాజా లోకం గాన్ధర్వమేయివాన్ ॥ ౪౯ ॥
purūravasa evāsīt
[purooravasa evaaseet]
trayī tretā-mukhe nṛpa
[trayee tretaa-mukhe nripa]
agninā prajayā rājā
[agninaa prajayaa raajaa]
lokaṁ gāndharvam eyivān
[lokam gaandharvam eyivaan]
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.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
purūravasa evāsīt
purūravasaḥ
from King Purūravā
eva
thus
āsīt
there was
trayī tretā-mukhe nṛpa
trayī
the Vedic principles of karma, jṣāna and upāsanā
tretā-mukhe
in the beginning of the Tretā-yuga
nṛpa
O King Parīkṣit
agninā prajayā rājā
agninā
simply by generating the fire of sacrifice
prajayā
by his son
rājā
King Purūravā
lokaṁ gāndharvam eyivān
lokam
to the planet
gāndharvam
of the Gandharvas
eyivān
achieved.
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.

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.”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
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
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