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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.39.28

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: Kapila utters an angry “huṃ” → all sixty thousand are reduced to ashes.

1.39.28

tatas tenāprameyena kapilena mahātmanā
bhasmarāśīkṛtāḥ sarve kākutstha sagarātmajāḥ

Then by that immeasurable, great-souled Kapila all the sons of Sagara were reduced to a heap of ashes, O Kākutstha.

Words: tatas — then; tenāprameyena — by that immeasurable one; kapilena — by Kapila; mahātmanā — great-souled; bhasmarāśīkṛtāḥ — reduced to a heap of ashes; sarve — all; kākutstha — O Kākutstha; sagarātmajāḥ — the sons of Sagara

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.