ऊर्जायां जज्ञिरे पुत्रा वसिष्ठस्य परन्तप । चित्रकेतुप्रधानास्ते सप्त ब्रह्मर्षयोऽमला: ॥ ४० ॥
urjayam jajnire putra vasisthasya parantapa citraketu-pradhanas te sapta brahmarsayo ’malah
- urjayam
- in Urja
- jajnire
- took birth
- putrah
- sons
- vasisthasya
- of the great sage Vasistha
- parantapa
- O great one
- citraketu
- Citraketu
- pradhanah
- headed by
- te
- all the sons
- sapta
- seven
- brahma-rsayah
- great sages with spiritual knowledge
- amalah
- without contamination.
The great sage Vasistha begot in his wife, Urja, sometimes called Arundhati, seven spotlessly great sages, headed by the sage named Citraketu.