Śatānanda
Śatānanda · śata-ānanda, “the one of a hundredfold joy”
Śatānanda is the ṛshi born to Ahalyā from Śaradvān, that is Gautama, in the line of Pūru. The Agni Purāṇa names him twice. In Agni Deva’s telling of the Rāmāyaṇa to Vasishṭha Maharshi, he is at the yajña of King Janaka in Mithilā when Rāma comes there with Viśvāmitra, and he tells Rāma of the greatness of Viśvāmitra. In the account of the Pūru line the Purāṇa gives his birth and his descendants: his son Satyadhṛk, and Satyadhṛk’s twin children Kṛpa and Kṛpī.
At Janaka’s yajña
After Rāma had guarded Viśvāmitra‘s yajña at the Siddhāśrama, he went with Viśvāmitra and the other munis and with Lakshmaṇa to see the yajña of Janaka and the great bow. There Śatānanda told Rāma of the greatness of Viśvāmitra, and at that yajña Janaka honoured Rāma, who had come with the muni. Then Rāma strung the bow and broke it without effort, and Janaka gave him his daughter Sītā, born not from a womb, whose bride-price was valour.
Source: Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 5
His birth and line
Agni Deva, telling Vasishṭha Maharshi the line of Pūru, says that to Cañcāśva of Mukula’s line twins were born, a son Divodāsa and a daughter Ahalyā. To Ahalyā, from Śaradvān, that is Gautama, was born Śatānanda. To Śatānanda was born a son, Satyadhṛk, and to Satyadhṛk were born twins, a son Kṛpa and a daughter Kṛpī.
Source: Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 278
Sources
- Agni Purāṇa, Chapters 5, 278