Aurva

Aurva is born to the Bhargava/Bhrigu line under crisis: his mother Arushi concealed the foetus in her thigh (uru) to hide it from Kṣatriya persecutors, and the child was produced from her thigh, earning the name Aurva — literally 'produced from the thigh.' The birth scene is described as miraculously radiant, blinding the attackers. He is recorded as father of the sage Richika and grandfather of Vatsa, and later shelters the exile royal couple Subahu and Yadavi, whose son is named Sagara in the narrative.

Accounts emphasize a dazzling birth-radiance: the infant emerged from the mother's thigh with such brightness that persecutors were instantly blinded (one summary likens the light to that of a thousand suns). Beyond the birth-scene radiance, the sources provide no sustained physical description of Aurva's later bodily appearance; later depictions focus on his ascetic actions and spiritual potency rather than corporeal traits.

Aurva's primary capacities in the sources are spiritual/ascetic: his tapas (austerity) reached a level that he intended to use to destroy the world in vengeance for the massacre of his kin. The Pitrs intervened and pleaded with him to desist; rather than annihilating the cosmos he cast the fire of his penance into the ocean, which manifested as a horse-mouthed consuming flame (Vadavamukha) and gave rise to the submarine fire Vadavagni. His birth-radiance functioned defensively at the moment of birth, blinding attackers.