Shloka 28
चित्रसेनगन्धर्वैः कौरवसंनिपातः
Citrasena and the Kaurava engagement
रुद्रेण शुक्रमुत्सृष्टं तच्छवेत: पर्वतो5भवत् | पावकस्येन्द्रियं श्वेते कृत्तिकाभि: कृतं नगे,रुद्रने जिस वीर्यका त्याग किया था, वही श्वेत पर्वतके रूपमें परिणत हो गया। फिर कृत्तिकाओंने अग्निके वीर्यको श्वेत पर्वतपर पहुँचाया था
rudreṇa śukram utsṛṣṭaṃ tac chvetaḥ parvato 'bhavat | pāvakasya indriyaṃ śvete kṛttikābhiḥ kṛtaṃ nage |
Mārkaṇḍeya said: “The semen discharged by Rudra became transformed into the White Mountain. There, upon that White Mountain, the Kṛttikās placed the generative essence of Pāvaka (Agni).”
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames extraordinary creative power as something that must be carefully relocated and contained: divine potency is not merely personal but cosmic, shaping sacred geography and requiring responsible mediation (here, by the Kṛttikās).
Mārkaṇḍeya recounts a mythic sequence: Rudra’s discharged generative essence becomes the White Mountain, and the Kṛttikās then convey and place Agni’s generative essence upon that mountain—part of the broader origin-cycle connected with the birth traditions of Skanda/Kārttikeya.