The Purana Index v1.c5.s5.46

v1.c5.s5.46

Ṛcīka (I)—the son of Nāhuṣi (Aurva) and father of Jamadagni by Satyavatī; the sage who married Gādhi’s daughter by paying a price of a thousand white horses with one black ear. (See Satyavatī). A mantrakṛt¹ compared to Dhiṣṇi fire. Blessed his wife with a caru and his mother-in-law with another for the birth respectively of a Brāhmaṇa and a Kṣatriya son. His wife wrongly took that intended for her mother. She gave birth to Jamadagni and became converted as Kauśikī river;² father of two other sons Śunahśepa and Śunahpuccha;³ had 100 sons who in turn had 1000 sons—all Bhārgavas.⁴