As he was born after tearing open his mother's thigh, that excellent Brahmana came to be know throughout the world by the name of Aurva.
अनेनैव च विख्यातो नाम्ना लोकेषु सत्तमः। स और्व इति विप्रर्षिरूकै भित्त्वा व्यजायत॥