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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.39.22

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 39: Story of Sagara: Kapila’s anger and the sons’ destruction. The sons pass the elephants supporting the earth and find the horse beside Kapila, they accuse him of theft and his “huṃ” reduces them to ashes

In the sequence: continuing through the quarters, they similarly honor Mahāpadma in the south, Saumanasa in the west, and the snow-white Bhadra in the north

1.39.22

samālabhya tataḥ sarve kṛtvā cainaṃ pradakṣiṇam
ṣaṣṭiḥ putrasahasrāṇi bibhidur vasudhātalam

Then all of them, having touched him and circumambulated him, the sixty thousand sons broke through the earth's surface.

Words: samālabhya — having touched, stroked; tataḥ — then; sarve — all; kṛtvā — having made; cainaṃ — and him; pradakṣiṇam — circumambulation; ṣaṣṭiḥ — sixty; putrasahasrāṇi — thousands of sons; bibhidur — broke through; vasudhātalam — the earth's surface

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.