Being anxious to save the son, he placed one nurse in charge of one vessel. Then after a long time there were born greatly powerful and exceedingly effulgent sixty thousand sons. O king, they were born to that royal sage through the favour of Rudra (Shiva).
धात्रीश्चैकैकशः प्रादात् पुत्ररक्षणतत्परः। ततः कालेन महता समुत्तस्थुर्महाबलाः॥ षष्टिः पुत्रसहस्राणि तस्याप्रतिमतेजसः। रुद्रप्रसादाद् राजर्षेः समजायन्त पार्थिव॥