Verse 28

²⁸Of Gadhi was born a man of great fire, like a flame kindled up, who by austerity let go of what belongs to a kshatriya and gained the splendour of Brahman. ²⁹And Visvamitra had a hundred sons and one, king. The middle of them was Madhucchandas, and after him they are all called the Madhucchandases. ³⁰He made Sunahsepa, the son of Ajigarta, his own son, the Bhargava who is also Devarata, and said to his sons: Let this one be set down as the eldest. ³¹He was the one sold as a human beast at Hariscandra's sacrifice, who praised the gods with the lord of creatures at their head, and was let go from the binding of the rope.

³²He was given by the gods at the god-sacrifice among the people of Gadhi, an ascetic; and so he is known as Devarata, that Sunahsepa, the Bhargava.