A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.410

c5.410

Another legend of the Mahā-bhārata and Purānas represents Daksha as being born a second time, in another Manwantara, as son of the Prachetasas and Mārishā, and that he had seven sons, “the allegorical persons Krodha, Tamas, Dama, Vikrita, Angiras, Kardama, and Aswa.” This second birth is said to have happened through his having been cursed to it by his son-in-law Siva. Daksha was in a certain way, by his mother Mārishā, an emanation of Soma, the moon; and as twenty-seven of his daughters were married to that luminary, Daksha is sometimes referred to as being both the father and the offspring of the moon, thus reiterating the duality of his nature.