Markandeya said : He performed severe asceticism lasting for many hundred years with the desire of getting a virtuous son equal to a Brahmana, in reputation when invocation was made with Vyahriti hymns and with the aid of the five sacred fires, namely Kashyapa, Vasishtha, Pranaka, the son of Prana, the son of Angira, Chyavana and Trivarcha, there was a bright fire full of the animating principle and of five different colours.
मार्कण्डेय उवाच काश्यपो ाथ वासिष्ठः प्राणश्च प्राणपुत्रकः। अग्निराङ्गिरसश्चैव च्यवनस्त्रिषु वर्चकः॥ अचरन्त तपस्तीव्र पुत्रार्थे बहुवार्षिकम्। पुत्रं लभेम धर्मिष्ठं यशसा ब्रह्मणा समम्॥ महाव्यातिभिातः पञ्चभिस्तैस्तदा त्वथ। जज्ञे तेजो महार्चिष्मान् पञ्चवर्णः प्रभावनः॥