Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.713

c9.713

3) To Ayodhyā. Sage Aurva conducted the Upanayana ceremony of the boy and taught him the Vedas etc. Once Yādavī wept to hear the boy address the muni ‘father’, and when the son asked her the reason for it she told him that the muni was not his father, who was really greater than the muni. She also told him their previous history, and Sagara decided to return to Ayodhyā somehow.