This chapter corresponds to Bd. P. I. 2.11 even textually. It deals with the progeny of the famous seven sages such as Bhrugu, Angiras, Atri, Pulaha and others. It mentions their important descendants. The text states their (descendants’) position in the Svayambhuva Manvantara.
Sūta said:
1. Khyati bore to Bhrugu the holy lords Dhătri and Vidhatru living throughout the Manvantara. They were masters of happiness and misery and grant auspicious and inauspicious results to living beings.
2. Their eldest sister, the chaste goddess Shri, the purifier of worlds, attained the auspicious lord Närāyana as her husband, and gave birth to two sons: Bala (Strength) and Utsäha (Energy).
3. Those heaven-walkers who pilot the aerial chariots of Devas and meritorious beings, were born to her as mental sons.
4-5. She had two daughters Āyati and Niyati who are remembered as the wives of Vidhatru and Dhātri. They had two sons Pandu and Mrukandu. They were firm in religious vows, eternal and the very storehouses of the Vedic learning. Mārkaņdeya was born of Mřukandu from Manasvinī.
6. Vedashiras was his son born of Mūrdhanyà. The sons born to Vedashiras in Pivari established the family line. They were known as Märkandeyas. They were seers and masters of the Vedas.
7. Pandu begot of Pundarikă a son, Dyutimän. Two sons were born to him, viz. Dyutimanta and Srujavän. Their sons and grandsons had alliances with the descendants of Bhrugu. Listen to the progeny of Marichi when the Svayambhuva Manvantara had passed.
8. Marichi’s wife gave birth to a son Pūrņamāsa. Know that these daughters too were born, viz. Kuşhti, Prusti, Tvişhā and the beautiful Apachiti.
9. Pūrņamāsā begot of Sarasvati two sons Virajas and the righteous Parvasa.
10. Virāja’s son Sudhäman was famous as learned Vairāja. The son of Sudhäman resorted to (and settled in) the eastern quarter.
11. He was the son of Gauri and a valorous, righteous ruler of the worlds. Parvasa had great fame and he was the most excellent of all Ganas.
12. Parvasa begot of Parvasā two glorious sons Yajñavāma and Kāśhyapa. These two righteous sons established their race.
13-14. Smruti, the wife of Angiras, gave birth to two sons and four daughters who were pious and renowned in the world. They (the daughters) were Siniväli, Kuhū, Rākā and Anumati. The sons were two, viz. Bharatăgni and Kirtiman.
15. Saṁhūti gave birth to Agni’s (Bharatagni’s?) son, Lord Parjanya. Another Parjanya called Hiranyaroma was born of Marichi. He is known as the guardian of the world abiding up to the final dissolution of the world.
16. To Kirtiman, Dhenuka bore two pious sons—Varişhtha and Dhruhtimān. They were the most excellent of the descendants of Angiras.
17-19. Their sons and grandsons who were in thousands have passed away. Anasūya gave birth to five sinless sons by Atri, and to a daughter called Shruti, the mother of Shankhapada. She was the wife of Kardama, son of Pulaha, the Patriarch. The five sons of Atri are glorified (enumerated) thus: Satyanetra, Havya, Apomūrti, Shaniśhvara and the fifth was Soma. At the end of Svayambhuva Manvantara they passed away along with the Yāma gods.
20. The descendants of Atri, their sons and grandsons were in hundreds and thousands. They lived up to the end of Svāyambhuva Manvantara.
21. Dattāli was the son of Pulastya by his wife Prīti. In his previous birth, in the Svayambhuva Manvantara, he was known as Agastya. Devabahu was the middle and Vinīta was the third son of Pulastya.
22. Their younger sister, viz. Sadvati was well known. She is remembered as the splended and pure wife of Agni (i.e. Bharatāgni) and mother of Parjanya.
23. The wife of Dattāli, the saintly and intelligent son of Pulastya and Priti brought forth many sons: Sujangha and others. They became famous as Paulastyas (descendants of Pulastya).
24. Kşhamå gave birth to the sons of Pulaha. They had fiery refulgence and they established their reputation,
25. They were Kardama, Ambarisha, Sahişhnu, Rushi and Dhanakapīvān. An auspicious daughter, Pivari, was also born.
26. Kardama’s wife Shruti daughter of Atri, gave birth to a son Shankhapada and a daughter Kamyā.
27. The glorious Shankhapada was a Prajapati and the ruler of worlds. After giving Kamya (in marriage) to Priyavrata, he settled in the southern region.
28. From Priyavrata, Kamyā got ten sons equal to Sväyambhuva Manu and two daughters who extended the Kşhattriya race.
29. The sons Dhanakapivån and Sahişhņu became famous. So also Yashodhárin, Kamadeva and Sumadhyama.
30. From Rutu a son equal to Kratu was born and the progeny was auspicious. They did not marry and remained celibate. They were sixty thousand in number and known as Valakhilyas.
31. They surround the sun and go ahead of Aruņa. They will remain fellow-travellers with the sun till the universe is finally dissolved.
32. Two younger sisters were Punyatma and Sumati. They were the daughters-in-law of Parvasa, son of Purnamāsa.
33-34. Seven sons were born to Vasişhtha in Urjă. Their eldest sister was the slender-waisted lady Pundarīkā who was the mother of Dyutiman and the wife of Pandu. Her younger brothers were seven. They were famous as Vāsişhthas.
35. They were Rajas, Putra, Ardhabahu, Savana. Adhana, Sutapas and Shukla. They are known as seven sages.
36. The famous daughter of Markandeya bore to Rajas a son known as Prajapati Ketuman, a king in the western region.
37-38. Vasishthas are known by their Gotra names. The races of the noble-souled Vásişhthas passed away in the Svayambhuva Manvantara.
Listen to the progeny of Agni.
Thus the creation of sages has been recounted along with their attendants. Henceforth, listen to the progeny of Agni in deatail and in due order.