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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 6]
kinds of birds, and Yāminī gave birth to locusts. Vinatā [Suparṇā] gave birth to Garuḍa, the carrier of Lord Viṣṇu, and to Anūru, or Aruṇa, the chariot driver of the sun-god. Kadrū gave birth to different varieties of serpents.
TEXT 23
कृत्तिकादीनि नक्षत्राणीन्दोः पत्न्यस्तु भारत । दक्षशापात् सोऽनपत्यस्तासु यक्ष्मग्रहार्दितः ॥२३॥
kṛttikādīni nakṣatrāṇi- indoḥ patnyas tu bhārata dakṣa-śāpāt so 'napatyas tāsu yakṣma-grahārditaḥ
kṛttikā-ādīni —headed by Kṛttikā;  nakṣatrāṇi —the constellations;  indoḥ —of the moon-god;  patnyaḥ —the wives;  tu —but;  bhārata —O Mahārāja Parikṣit, descendant of the dynasty of Bharata;  dakṣa-śāpāt —because of being cursed by Dakṣa;  saḥ —the moon-god;  anapatyaḥ —without children;  tāsu —in so many wives;  yakṣma-graha-arditaḥ —being oppressed by a disease that brings about gradual destruction.
TRANSLATION
O Mahārāja Parikṣit, best of the Bhāratas, the constellations named Kṛttikā were all wives of the moon-god. However, because Prajāpati Dakṣa had cursed him to suffer from a disease causing gradual destruction, the moon-god could not beget children in any of his wives.
PURPORT
Because the moon-god was very much attached to Rohiṇī, he neglected all his other wives. Therefore, seeing the bereavement of these daughters, Prajāpati Dakṣa became angry and cursed him.
TEXTS 24-26
पुनः प्रसाद्य तं सोमः कला लेभे क्षये दिताः । भृणु नामानि लोकानां मातॄणां शङ्कराणि च ॥२४॥