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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.37.8

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

1.37.8

ekā janayitā tāta putraṃ vaṃśakaraṃ tava
ṣaṣṭiṃ putrasahasrāṇi aparā janayiṣyati

One (wife), my child, will bear a son to continue your line; the other will bring forth sixty thousand sons.”

Words: ekā — one (fem.); janayitā — will bring forth, beget; tāta — my child, dear one; putraṃ — a son; vaṃśakaraṃ — continuing the line; tava — your; ṣaṣṭiṃ — sixty; putrasahasrāṇi — thousands of sons; aparā — the other (fem.); janayiṣyati — will bring forth

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.