The highly intelligent Apastamva, Shankha and Likhita, and the great Rishi Gautama, have all gone to the celestial region by having made gifts of sesame seeds.
आपस्तम्बश्च मेधावी शङ्खश्च लिखितस्तथा। महर्षिौतमश्चापि तिलदानैर्दिवं गताः॥