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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.38.11

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 38: Story of Sagara: The stolen horse and the earth’s excavation. Indra steals the sacrificial horse, Sagara sends his sixty thousand sons to dig for it and the devastation drives the earth’s inhabitants to Brahmā

In the sequence: Sagara orders his sixty thousand sons to search the entire earth, each covering a yojana-wide tract and digging until the horse and thief are found → he remains consecrated at the sacrifice with Aṃśumat and the priests

1.38.11

upādhyāya vacaḥ śrutvā tasmin sadasi pārthivaḥ
ṣaṣṭiṃ putrasahasrāṇi vākyam etad uvāca ha

Hearing the teachers' word, in that assembly the king spoke this word to his sixty thousand sons:

Words: upādhyāya — of the teachers; vacaḥ — word; śrutvā — having heard; tasmin — that (loc.); sadasi — in the assembly (loc.); pārthivaḥ — the king; ṣaṣṭiṃ — sixty; putrasahasrāṇi — thousands of sons; vākyam — word, speech; etad — this; uvāca — said; ha — indeed

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.