Arundhati Marries Vasishtha

Brahma said

Having granted the boon, Shambhu vanished. Sandhya went to Medhatithi, unnoticed by anyone by Shambhu's favour. She remembered the brahmachari who had instructed her (Vasishtha, who had taken that form at Brahma's word) and accepted him as husband. The fire had been kindled. She entered it happily and her body merged into the offering cakes and was burned with them, fragrance unnoticed. By Shambhu's order the fire burned her body and carried it, pure, into the solar disc. To please the gods and ancestors the sun divided her body into two and set the parts on his chariot: the upper part became morning sandhya, between night and day, and the rest evening sandhya, between day and night. Morning sandhya, just before sunrise, pleases the gods; evening sandhya, when the sun has set and turned red as a lotus, pleases the ancestors. Shambhu, full of compassion, gave embodied beings her breath, her mind and her divine body. When the sages' sacrifice was over, Medhatithi found the daughter in the middle of the fire, radiant as molten gold, accepted her with joy, bathed her, placed her on his lap and named her Arundhati, since she never obstructed dharma for any reason, and thus she became famous in the three worlds. He completed the sacrifice and obtained this treasure of a daughter. With disciples and family, he raised her in his hermitage on the Chandrabhaga called Tapasaranya. At five years old she purified Chandrabhaga and Tapasaranya by her qualities. Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshvara arranged her marriage with Vasishtha, Brahma's son, with great enthusiasm and delight; gods and sages were delighted. From water flowing from the hands of the three gods seven rivers, Shipra and others, arose, supremely purifying. Arundhati, foremost of virtuous wives, made Vasishtha shine more; by her he had fine sons, Shakti and others. Brahma says this account of Sandhya's conduct is sacred, purifying and divine; a man or woman who hears it with virtuous vows obtains all they wish.