An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s4.148

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Gaṅgāvataraṇa(m) ("descent of the Gaṅgā"). § 389 (Sagara): Asked by Sagara to bring back the horse and deliver him from hell (Narakād), Amçumat went to the spot where the earth had been excavated, entered the sea by that very way, and beheld Kapila and the horse. As he bowed his head before Kapila, etc., Kapila granted him the horse, and that his fathers should be purified and go to heaven, when his son's son, by the favour of Śiva, brought Tripathagā (i.e. Gaṅgā) from heaven. When he had brought the horse back to the sacrificial yard and narrated all the events to Sagara, Sagara grieved no more, but praised Amçumat and finished the sacrificial rites. Sagara was greeted by all the gods and converted the sea into a son of himself (*putratve kalpayām āsa*), and after a long reign placed his grandson on the throne and ascended to heaven. Amçumat ruled the whole earth like Sagara, and died after he had placed his son