7. The birth history of Chyavana

Ugrasrava Sauti Puranika, son of Lomaharshana, was present among the sages who attended the twelve-year satra of the sage Shaunaka at Naimisaranya. The Puranic, who had labored and mastered the Puranas, asked: "What do you want to hear? What should I tell you?" The sages said: “Lomaharshana! We look forward to hearing the great stories you tell us. But at present Shaunaka is busy in fire worship. He also knows all the divine stories of gods, demons, Humans, snakes, and Gandharvas. We should wait for his arrival whom we respect a lot. When he sits in the seat of this supreme Guru and asks, say whatever he asks for.” Suta said: “So be it. After that great man sits in this Gurpeeth, I will tell him whatever pious story he wants to hear on various subjects.”

At the same time, Viprarshabha duly performed all the functions, praised the deities, offered tarpana to the fathers, and came to the yajna school where the Brahmarsi Siddhas were sitting with Sutaputra. Grihapati Shaunaka who was sitting in the middle of the seated ritvikas and members, said thus. Shaunaka said: “Earlier your father had conquered all the Puranas also. Lomaharshan! Couldn't you have mastered them too? In Puranas there are stories of the original genealogies of Dhimantas. We have heard all this from your father before. Would like to hear the ancient Bhargava lineage. Tell that story. We are all excited to hear that story.”

Suta said: “Bhrigunandana! I recite the ancient Bhriguvamsapravara, which I learned from my father, which is worshiped by the gods, Indra, Agni, and the Marudganas. It was described earlier by the bramhin, the great Vaishampaya. Listen Hey the sages! I will narrate this genealogy in the form of stories as in Puranas. Bhrigu had a beloved son named Chyavana. Chyavana had a pious son named Pramati. Pramati had a son named Ruru from Ghritachi. The son born of Ruru and Pamadvara, is only the your ancestor Shunaka who was well known for his knowledge in vedas and also for his righteousness. He was an ascetic, successful, pious, truthful person known to all Brahmins.” Shaunaka said: “Sutaputra! Tell me, who is listening, how that person came to be known as Chyavana.”

Suta said: “Bhrigu had a beloved wife called Pulome. She had got conceived. Once when the pious great Bhrigu went to bathe, the demon Puloma arrived at his hermitage. Entering the hermitage, seeing Bhrigu's wife there, Puloma was filled with desire and lost all sanity. Pulome offered fruits brought from the forest for the demon who was a guest. Brahmin! Seeing her, the demon was filled with desire and decided to pick up the pulome and so he and was happy. The demon saw the Jatavedasa glowing there, bowed to Agni, and asked the burning fire: “Fire! You who are the mouth of the gods, and the truth-teller, tell me the true answer to my question. Fire! Whose wife is she? Earlier this bride was sure to be my wife. But later her father unfairly gave her to Bhrigu. So, will this bride really become Bhrigu's wife? I will forcibly pick her up from the hermitage and carry her away. My heart burns with anger and my hair stands on end every time I remember that Bhrigu took what was once mine.”

Suspecting that she was Bhrigu's wife, the demon repeatedly asked the blazing fire. “Fire! You live forever in all things as the witness of sins and virtues. Why not tell the truth now? Bhrigu unjustly abducted the one who was my wife. Then tell me, will she not truly be my wife? Only after you tell me whether she is Bhrigu's wife or mine, I will pick her up from this hermitage as you see her. So tell me the truth.” The fire agnideva was saddened to hear his words. He feared Bhrigu's curse as much as he feared lying. At the end he said this.” Suta said: “Brahmin! Hearing those words of Agni, the demon smiled, took the form of Varaha ie a pig and in a single moment carried her away with mental speed ie the speed of mind. Then the Bhrigukulodbhava fetus growing in her womb got angry and jumped out of the mother. That womb itself was later known as Chyavana. Seeing that Adityavarcha falling from the mother's womb, the demon left her exhausted and fell down. Then that Pulome caught hold of Chyavana of Bhrigunanda and fainted.

Seeing that Pulome crying, the Father of the Universe lord Bramha Himself came and consoled her. A great river arose from her tears and followed that successful Bhrigu’s wife. Seeing that river flowing in the path of his daughter-in-law, Lord Bramha named that river Vasoodhara. Near it is Chyavan's hermitage. In this way Chyavana, the son of Bhrigu, was born. There his father found Chyavana and his wife. An angry Bhrigu questioned his wife Pulome: “From whom did that demon know about you and how did he abduct you? Who told him that you are my wife? I want to curse him today in anger. No one can survive the curse born of my wrath.”

Pulome said: “Lord! The demon came to know about you through fire, agnideva. Later, the demon picked me up who was crying like a sheep and went away. I was protected by the supreme effulgence of your son and that demon fell from my hands in a state of combustion.”” Suta said: “Bhrigu, who heard this from Pulome, was heartbroken and furious and shouted and cursed at Agni, “Sarvabhaksho Bhava!”.

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