Savarṇā

Savarṇā · sa-varṇā, “she of like colour”

Savarṇā was the daughter of Samudra, the Ocean, and the wife of Bhagavān Prācīnabarhi, the Prajāpati. Prācīnabarhi married her only after performing intense tapas, and in her he begot ten sons, masters of Dhanurveda, the Prācetasas. Through them she was the grandmother of Daksha Prajāpati. Lomaharshaṇa, the Sūta, tells of her to the munis in the account of creation in the Brahma Purāṇa.

Wife of Prācīnabarhi

Havirdhāna, of the line of Pṛthu, had six sons by Āgneyī, and the first of them was Prācīnabarhi, who became a Prajāpati. In the land he ruled, the darbha grass growing in the water sprouted with its tips pointing east (prācīna-agra), and so he was called Prācīnabarhi. After performing intense tapas, that lord married Savarṇā, the daughter of Samudra.

Mother of the Prācetasas

In Savarṇā, Prācīnabarhi begot ten sons, masters of Dhanurveda, the science of the bow. These were the Prācetasas. Together they performed tapas, keeping dharma in one way, and stayed in the waters of the ocean for ten thousand years. While they performed tapas the trees, left unprotected, covered the earth, and the Prācetasas burned them with the wind and fire that came from their mouths, until Soma gave them Mārishā, the maiden born of the trees, as their wife. From the ten Prācetasas, in Mārishā, Daksha of great tejas was born.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 2

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 2