Shashavindu had ten thousand wives. Upon each of them he begat a thousand sons, and thus they were ten thousand in number. Those sons refused to call any body else save themselves as Patriarch.
शशबिन्दोश्च भार्याणां सहस्राणि दशाच्युत। एकैकस्यां सहस्रं तु तनयानामभूत् तदा॥ एवं शतसहस्राणां शतं कस्य महात्मनः। पुत्राणां च न ते कंचिदिच्छन्त्यन्यं प्रजापतिम्॥