Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.562

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The Sun, water, earth, air, fire, ether, Brahmin who has taken vow and the moon were allotted to them as their positions and figures. Their wives were Suvarcalā, Uṣā, Vikeśī Śivā, Svāhā, Diśā, Dikṣā and Rohiṇī. This world is filled by the sons and grandsons and so on of these wives. Their sons respectively were Śanaiścara Śukra, Lohitāṅga, Manojava, Skanda, Sarga, Santāna and Budha. This Rudra who is described above, married Satī the daughter of Prajāpati Dakṣa. (Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Aṃśa 1, Chapter 8). (For further information see under ŚIVA also).