Markandeyapurana 62.1

62.1

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca
evantu vadatastasya dvijaputrasya pāvakaḥ /
gārhapatyaḥ śarīre tu sannidhānamathākarot //

Mārkaṇḍeya spoke:
Now as the young brāhman thus spoke, the Gārhapatya Fire in sooth appeared at hand upon his body; and with it surmounting him, he stood amid a circle of light, and illumined that place as if he were Agni in bodily form. Now vehement love seized upon the heavenly maiden as she beheld the brāhman, who stood there in so glorious a form. Then the young brāhman,[1] surmounted by that Fire, immediately started to go as before; and he departed in haste while the slender-shaped heavenly maiden gazed after him as far as her eye could reach, her throat quivering with sighs. Then in one moment from that time the brāhman reached his own abode and performed all the rites as he had mentioned.