When in due course Amsumaan entered and went round Paataala he was delighted when
he found the sacrificial horse grazing contentedly there, but was perplexed and distressed
when he saw heaps of ashes all over the place. Could they be all that remained of his
valiant uncles?
Garuda, the bird-king, brother of Sumati,
Sagara's second wife, who chanced to be there told Amsumaan: "Those ashheaps are all
that is left of the sixty thousand sons of Sagara who were consumed by the wrathful glance
of Sage Kapila. Dear child, take the horse and complete the yaaga. If these ashes are to
be watered according to custom so that the souls of the princes may rest in peace, Ganga
should be brought down here from the land of the Devas." |
