[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s1.377 # 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 An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.377 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.377](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.377) 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: - [Previous: c5.s1.376](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.376) - [Next: c5.s1.378](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.378) - [Up: c5.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.377](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.377) · Pramāṇa