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Agni told her to discharge the seed upon the Himālayas and Gaṅgā immediately expelled it from her body It emerged from her in a brilliant stream and fell upon the earth, forming vast veins of gold and silver Even at a great distance mines of copper, lead and tin were created by that divine fluid.

The sixty thousand sons were of wicked conduct and caused pain to all living beings. The one son, however, was pious and became the beloved of all the people.

After Kārttikeya’s birth the gods approached Śiva’s consort and, pleased in mind, worshipped her. However, she felt angry at having been denied union with her consort and, with bloodshot eyes, she pronounced a curse upon both the gods and the earth. This earth shall have a jagged surface of many shapes and forms and shall have many masters.

Told by Viśvāmitra to Rāma and Lakṣman upon reaching the Ganges

They excavated the earth’s surface and searched the subterranean regions, but still to no avail. Excavating and looking in all directions, the princes created havoc and killed innumerable creatures. The gods went before Brahmā and asked that he stop them.

In time the princes arrived before Kapila and found him seated in meditation. We shall now kill You and take it back!”

Amsuman also found Kapila sitting in meditation and saw before Him his brothers’ ashes, destroyed by Grieved by his brothers’ deaths, Amsuman looked all around and saw Garuḍa, Viṣṇu’s great eagle carrier devise some plan to bring the Ganges to earth so that her waters could flow across his brothers’ ashes and Amsuman offered prayers to Kapila and received from Him the horse, whereupon he went back to his father

Agni at once caught up all of Śiva’s vital fluid and went before Gaṅgā, saying, “Be pleased to receive

Upon seeing the sacrifice, Indra became concerned that Sagara may exceed him in pious merits and thereby Indra thus assumed the form of a fierce Rākṣasa and seized the sacrificial horse, taking it away to a

From out of his two wives the king had sixty thousand and one sons. These pieces were placed in sixty thousand pots of ghee and gradually they grew into babies.

Upon seeing this form, Śiva’s seed melted and the god of fire impregnated Gaṅgā all over with that glowing

They fell prostrate before him and said to him, “O lord, the worlds will not be able to bear your seed The combined power of you and your consort will surely be unbearable to all beings.

The elder of the two was named Gaṅgā and, upon the supplication of the gods, she later became this holy The other girl was called Umā, and her father conferred her upon the unlimitedly powerful Śiva to be

Śiva, who always remains fixed in thought of Viṣṇu and is ever compassionate to all beings, replied,

Hearing this threat and seeing before Him the sixty thousand sons of Sagara, Kapila, a sage of immeasurable

Despite every attempt to perform sacrifice and pray to the gods, neither Sagara nor his son were able

instructed Agni, the god of fire, “Accompanied by Vāyu, move quickly across the surface of the earth and

This water filled the huge excavation made by Sagara’s sons and thereby became the great ocean.