Havirdhāna
Havirdhāna · haviḥ-dhāna, “the holder of the offerings”
Kuśa has other meanings too: see all meanings of Kuśa. Gaya has other meanings too: see all meanings of Gaya. Āgneyī has other meanings too: see all meanings of Āgneyī. Kṛshṇa has other meanings too: see all meanings of Kṛshṇa. Śukra has other meanings too: see all meanings of Śukra. Vraja has other meanings too: see all meanings of Vraja.
Havirdhāna is a Prajāpati of the line of King Pṛthu. He is the son of Antardhāna and Śikhaṇḍinī, and by his wife Āgneyī the father of six sons, the eldest of whom is the Prajāpati Prācīnabarhi. In Bhagavān Śiva‘s telling of the line of Manu he is called the revered Prajāpati Havirdhāma.
In the line of Pṛthu
Lomaharshaṇa, the Sūta, tells the munis that the ṛshis churned the right hand of Vena, and from it rose Pṛthu, holding a bow, wearing armour and blazing like fire, who ruled the earth and milked her as a cow. Pṛthu’s sons, knowers of dharma, were Antardhi and Pāti. From Antardhāna, who is Antardhi, Śikhaṇḍinī bore a son, Havirdhāna.
From Havirdhāna, Āgneyī bore six sons: Prācīnabarhi, Śukra, Gaya, Kṛshṇa, Vraja and Ajina. This Āgneyī is not the Āgneyī who was the wife of Puru, and these sons Śukra and Gaya are not the guru Śukra or Gaya the son of Puru.
His eldest son, the revered Prācīnabarhi, the great one, became a Prajāpati. In the land ruled by Prācīnabarhi, the son of Havirdhāna, the darbha grass growing in the water sprouted with its tips pointing east (prācīna-agra), and so he was called Prācīnabarhi. Only after performing intense tapas did he marry Savarṇā, the daughter of Samudra, and in her he begot ten sons, masters of Dhanurveda.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 2
In the line of Manu, as Bhagavān Śiva tells it
When the munis and the dvijas who had come on a tīrtha-yātrā asked Bhagavān Śiva the means of freedom from saṃsāra, he told them the greatness of Vāsudeva, and that Vāsudeva, for the good of the devas, would be born in the line of the great Manu. Giving that line, he said: from Manu came Aṃśa; from him Antardhāma; from him the revered Prajāpati Havirdhāma; from him Prācīnabarhi, to whom would be born ten sons beginning with Pracetas; and among them Daksha, son of Pracetas, became Prajāpati.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 226
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapters 2, 226