The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c10.33

c10.33

¹ King Sagara prepared a horse-sacrifice, but the horse was stolen by the sage Kapila. The king's sixty thousand sons who had charge of it searched for it high and low, and at length discovered it in the regions below the earth, grazing by the side of the sage, who was wrapt in meditation. When attacked, Kapila burnt them all to ashes by the fire which flashed from his third eye—the eye of spiritual consciousness. A descendant of Sagara, by turning the waters of the Ganges on to their ashes, obtained the admission of their souls into heaven.