Verse 11

⁵The brahmin Ricika asked him for his daughter Satyavati. Thinking the suitor no match for her, Gadhi said to the Bhargava: ⁶Let a thousand horses be given as the price of the girl, horses with one ear dark and the shine of the moon on them. We are of the house of Kusika. ⁷Told this, and understanding what was meant by it, he went to Varuna, brought back the horses, handed them over, and married the fair-faced girl. ⁸The sage was asked by his wife and by her mother, both of them wanting a child. He cooked the offering with two sets of words over it, and then went off to bathe. ⁹Meanwhile Satyavati was asked by her mother for the portion that was her own. Thinking it the better of the two she gave it to her, and ate her mother's herself.

¹⁰The sage understood what had happened and said to his wife: You have done a hard thing. Your son will be terrible, a wielder of the rod, and your brother will be the finest knower of Brahman. ¹¹Satyavati pleaded with him, Let it not be so; and the Bhargava, softened, said: Then let it fall on the grandson. And so Jamadagni came to be.