अग्नीद्ध्र (agnIddhra)
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Englishअग्नीध्र / AGNĪDHRA (agnīddhra) .1) Genealogy. Descended from viṣṇu thus: ViṣṇuBrahmā-marīci-kaśyapa-vivasvān-VaivasvatamanuPriyavrata-agnīdhra.2) Birth. priyavrata, son of Vaivasvatamanu, married barhiṣmatī, daughter of viśvakarmā. agnīdhra was one of their ten sons. The other nine sons were: Idhmajihvā, yajñabāhu, mahāvīra, hiraṇyaretas, Ghṛtaprṣṭha, Sava, medhātithi, vītihotra and kavi. A daughter also was born to priyavrata and barhiṣmatī named ūrjjasvatī. śukra married her and devayānī was their daughter.3) Married life. agnīdhra married a nymph named pūrvacitti. They had nine children: Nābhi, Kiṁpurusa, hari, Ilāvrata, ramyaka, Hirañcaya, kuru, bhadrāśva, and ketumāla. It was from this kuru that the kuru Vaṁśa began.4) Other incidents. (1) agnīdhra ruled over Jambudvīpa for a long time. (devī bhāgavata, skandha 8).(2) While he was the ruler of Jambudvīpa agnīdhra once went into a cave and did hard tapas there without eating any food. brahmā then sent a beautiful nymph (Apsarā maiden) to him to tempt him and thwart his tapas. agnīdhra fell a victim to the temptation. His penance was shaken by that nymph named vipracitti. He married her. (bhāgavata, skandha 5, Chapter 2).
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