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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 20]
TEXT 1
श्रीनादरायणिरुवाच
पूरोवंशं प्रवक्ष्यामि यत्र जातोऽसि भारत ।
यत्र राजर्षयो वंश्या ब्रह्मवंश्याश्च जज्ञिरे ॥ १ ॥
śrī-bādarāyaṇir uvāca 
  pūror vaṁśaṁ pravakṣyāmi 
  yatra jāto 'si bhārata 
  yatra rājarṣayo vaṁśyā 
  brahma-vaṁśyāś ca jajñire
śrī-bādarāyaṇiḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said;  pūroḥ vaṁśam —the dynasty of Mahārāja Pūru;  pravakṣyāmi —now I shall narrate;  yatra —in which dynasty;  jātaḥ asi —you were born;  bhārata —O Mahārāja Parikṣit, descendant of Mahārāja Bharata;  yatra —in which dynasty;  rāja-rṣayaḥ —all the kings were saintly;  vaṁśyāḥ —one after another;  brahma-vaṁśyāḥ —many  brāhmaṇa  dynasties;  ca —also;  jajñire —grew up.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Mahārāja Parikṣit, descendant of Mahārāja Bharata, I shall now describe the dynasty of Pūru, in which you were born, in which many saintly kings appeared, and from which many dynasties of brāhmaṇas began.
PURPORT
There are many historical instances by which we can understand that from  kṣatriyas  many  brāhmaṇas  have been born and that from  brāhmaṇas  many  kṣatriyas  have been born. The Lord Himself says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (4.13),  cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ : “According to the three modes of material nature and the work ascribed to them, the four divisions of human society were created by Me.” Therefore, regardless of the family in which one takes birth, when one is qualified with the symptoms of a particular section, he is to be described accordingly.  Yal-lakṣaṇaṁ proktam . One’s place in the