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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.37.6

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 37: Story of Sagara: One heir and sixty thousand sons. Sagara’s wives choose one dynastic heir or sixty thousand sons, the many grow in ghee-filled pots while Asamañja is banished for killing children

In the sequence: after a hundred years, Bhṛgu grants offspring: one wife will bear a single son to continue the dynasty, the other sixty thousand sons

1.37.6

atha varṣa śate pūrṇe tapasārādhito muniḥ
sagarāya varaṃ prādād bhṛguḥ satyavatāṃ varaḥ

Now when a hundred years were complete, the sage Bhṛgu, best of the truthful, propitiated by (Sagara's) austerity, granted Sagara a boon:

Words: atha — now, then; varṣa — years; śate — hundred (loc.); pūrṇe — complete, full (loc.); tapasārādhito — propitiated by (his) austerity; muniḥ — the sage; sagarāya — to Sagara; varaṃ — a boon; prādād — granted, gave; bhṛguḥ — Bhṛgu; satyavatāṃ — of the truthful; varaḥ — the best

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.