Bhṛgu

In the Taittirīya Upaniṣad, Bhṛgu went to his father Varuṇa and asked to be taught Brahman, that from which all beings are born, by which they live and into which they return, and was told only to seek it by austerity. Five times he practised austerity, coming back between them to ask again, until he knew that Brahman is bliss. His wife Pulomā was carried off by a rākṣasa, a demon, and their unborn son Cyavana fell from her womb and burned the demon to ashes; and because the fire god had told the rākṣasa whose wife she was, Bhṛgu cursed Agni to devour everything. A king fleeing his enemies took refuge in his hermitage, and by a word Bhṛgu made him a brahmin. In the Bhāgavata he cursed the followers of Śiva when Dakṣa and Śiva quarrelled, lost his beard when Dakṣa's sacrifice was destroyed, and was given a goat's beard when it was made whole; and sent by the sages to learn which of the three gods is greatest, he kicked Viṣṇu on the chest, and Viṣṇu bowed his head to him. In the Gītā, where Kṛṣṇa, the Lord, names the forms in which he can be known, he says: Among the great seers, I am Bhṛgu.