Bhishma said Then that powerful son of Chyavana who was the foremost of Bhrigu's family, besought the god Varuna, the son of Aditi, who was the lord of all the waters. O best of gods, I pray to you io give me a thousand horses, all fleet like the wind and having complexion as effulgent as the moon's, but each having one ear black.
भीष्म उवाच ततः स भृगुशार्दूलश्च्यवनस्यात्मजः प्रभुः। अब्रवीद् वरुणं देवमादित्यं पतिमम्भसाम्॥ एकतः श्यामकर्णानां हयानां चन्द्रवर्चसाम्। सहस्रं वातवेगानां भिक्षे त्वां देवसत्तम॥