03.209
Mārkaṇḍeya said.
Cāndramasī, the illustrious wife of Bṛhaspati, gave birth to six meritorious Agnis and also to one daughter. (03-209-1)
In the offerings where clarified butter is prescribed as the oblation to Agni, that Agni—the son of Bṛhaspati—is named Śaṃyu, of great splendor. (03-209-2)
In the Cāturmāsya sacrifices, in whose rite the eldest animal is offered in the Aśvamedha, the powerful single Fire, blazing with many flames, is then (present). (03-209-3)
Pratimā, the wife of Śaṃyu, was Satyā—truthful and born of Dharma. Agni, his son, was bright, and he had three daughters who were devoted to good vows. (03-209-4)
He who, in the sacrifice, is worshipped first by the portion of ghee—that Agni, for him, Bharadvāja is called the first son. (03-209-5)
During all the full moon days, the oblation ghee offered with a ladle—he is Bharata by name, the second Agni, an auspicious son. (03-209-6)
Three daughters are born, of whom Bharata is the husband of one; but Bharata is his son, and Bharati is also his daughter. (03-209-7)
Bharata is born of Agni, who is called Bharata; Pāvaka, however, is of Prajāpati; thus, O best of the Bharatas, the great one is established exceedingly. (03-209-8)
Bharadvāja's wife was Vīrā, and their son Vīra, who offered funeral offerings, are said by the twice-born to have worshipped him with clarified butter, gradually, just as Soma is worshipped. (03-209-9)
He who is joined with the oblation, with the second Soma, together—who is the lord of chariots, possessing the sound of chariots, and whose seed is in a pot—he is called thus. (03-209-10)
It is said that in the river Sarayu, he, always bringing what pertains to Agni at the invocations, generated success, and covered the sun with his rays. (03-209-11)
But Agni, called Niścyavana, who never falls due to fame, brilliance, or prosperity, alone praises the earth. (03-209-12)
He is without sin, freed from impurities, pure and shining like flame. The fire, his son, is faultless and true in all his proper actions. (03-209-13)
He who performs expiation for beings who cry out (complain), indeed, the fire—called 'expiation'—when worshiped, brings honor. (03-209-14)
Here, the people who are themselves afflicted by pain respond to him—his son named Svana, Pāvaka, is the cause of pain. (03-209-15)
But he who remains pervading the intellect of the universe and the world—that one, the knowers of the Self call Viśvajit by name, the purifier. (03-209-16)
The inner fire which, residing within, digests the food eaten by beings—he, O Bhārata, is called the 'eater of all' in sacrifices throughout all worlds. (03-209-17)
Brāhmaṇas worship as the sacred fire in cooking-sacrifices that person who is a self-controlled celibate, always observing great vows. (03-209-18)
The famous one named Gopati, whose beloved was the river; in him all acts are performed by their doers. (03-209-19)
That extremely fierce (being) known as the submarine fire drinks up the water; his upper part, named 'the upward-going', is the seer (kavi), but he is sustained by vital breath. (03-209-20)
In a house with a door facing north where offerings are always made, the clarified butter becomes the rightly performed oblation; the performer of the sviṣṭakṛt rite is considered to be supreme. (03-209-21)
Among calm beings, that which is anger becomes fire. From anger was born the essence, and then Manyatī, his daughter. Named 'Svāhā', she is terrible and cruel, abiding among all beings. (03-209-22)
In heaven, Pāvaka, for whom there is no one equal in beauty, is called Kāma by the gods because he is incomparable. (03-209-23)
Pāvaka, the unfailing one, the archer adorned with a garland and standing on his chariot, holding back his anger from delight, would destroy enemies in battle. (03-209-24)
The hymn, so called, the greatly fortunate one, praised by three hymns, indeed generated the great speech; they know that desired horse.
