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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.37.7

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

1.37.7

apatyalābhaḥ sumahān bhaviṣyati tavānagha
kīrtiṃ cāpratimāṃ loke prāpsyase puruṣarṣabha

“A very great gaining of offspring shall be yours, O sinless one, and you shall win unrivalled fame in the world, O bull among men.

Words: apatyalābhaḥ — the gaining of offspring; sumahān — very great; bhaviṣyati — will be; tavānagha — yours, O sinless one; kīrtiṃ — fame, glory; cāpratimāṃ — and incomparable; loke — in the world; prāpsyase — you will attain, win; puruṣarṣabha — O bull among men

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.