There are eighteen thousand brothers and cousins in our race. Ahuka has been hundred sons, each of whom is like the best of the celestialss.
अष्टादश सहस्राणि भ्रातृणां सन्ति नः कुले। आहुकस्य शतं पुत्रा एकैकस्त्रिदशावरः॥