An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.377

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Aṅgirasa(m) ("on the descendants of Aṅgiras"). § 488 (Mārk.): Asked by Yudhishṭhira, Mārkaṇḍeya related the following "old story" (*itihāsam purātanam*): Aṅgiras (the third son of Brahmān, v. 14122) in days of yore practised austerities in his hermitage, so that he excelled Agni, who, thinking that Brahmān had created a new Fire, was greatly depressed, but Aṅgiras, saying that *Agni* had been created by Brahmān to officiate as fire, asked him to occupy his proper place, and when *Agni* only wished to be the second or *Prajā-patyaka* fire, at last prevailed upon him to remain and make him (i.e. Āṅgiras) his first son. Āṅgiras also had a son, Bṛhaspati; knowing him the Āṅgirasa to be the firstborn son of Fire, the gods came and learned the matter from Āṅgiras (III, 217).—§ 489: The children of Āṅgiras and Ṣubhā (B. Ṣubhā): the son Bṛhaspati, and the eight daughters, Bhānumatī, Rāgā, Sinīvālī, also called Kapardisutā, because she was both visible and invisible, Arcishmatī, Havishmatī, Mākhiṣmatī, and Kuhū (III, 218).—§ 490: