88 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 20

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$ri-badardyanir uvdca
ptror vamsam pravaksyami
yatra jato ’si bharata
yatra rdjarsayo vamsya
brahma-varnsyas ca jajiire

$ri-badarayanih utica—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; piroh varhsam
—the dynasty of Maharaja Piru; pravaksyami—now I shall narrate;
yatra—in which dynasty; jatah asi—you were born; bhdrata—O
Maharaja Pariksit, descendant of Maharaja Bharata; yatra—in which
dynasty; rdja-rsayah—all the kings were saintly; varisyah—one after
another; brahma-vamsyah—many brdhmana dynasties; ca—also;
Jajnire—grew up.

TRANSLATION

Sukadeva Gosvami said: O Maharaja Pariksit, descendant of
Maharaja Bharata, I shall now describe the dynasty of Piru, in
which you were born, in which many saintly kings appeared, and
from which many dynasties of brahmanas began.

PURPORT

There are many historical instances by which we can understand that
from ksatriyas many brdhmanas have been born and that from
bréhmanas many ksatriyas have been born. The Lord Himself says in
Bhagavad-gita (4.13), cdtur-varnyamn maya srstarn guna-karma-
vibhagasah: “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-laksanarm proktam. One’s place in the
