Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.3337

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Dakṣa got five thousand sons of Vīraṇī. They also got sons. When the population began to increase thus Nārada intervened and questioned the advisability of increasing the population before knowing the capacity of the earth. The sons of Dakṣa realised the sense in it and started to have a survey of the earth. Dakṣa was disappointed that the children left him without showing any interest in the work of creation. So he produced another five thousand sons and asked them to start the work of creation. But they were also sent away as before by Nārada. Dakṣa became angry and he created sixty daughters.