Somaka said: Whether it is a good or an evil deed, you may consider that the ceremony by which one hundred sons may be born as already performed, O exalted one explain it to me.
सोमक उवाच कार्यं वा यदि वाकार्यं येन पुत्रशतं भवेत्। कृतमेवेति तद् विद्धि भगवान् प्रब्रवीतु मे॥