As that pious one furnished with selfknowledge was always meditating upon this, an eminently virtuous son was born to him named Bhagiratha.
तस्य चिन्तयतो नित्यं धर्मेण विदितात्मनः। पुत्रो भगीरथो नाम जज्ञे परमधार्मिकः॥