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King Sagara

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King Sagara seated on a throne
  • However, Indra, the lord of Heaven, stole the horse of King Sagara and left it at the ashram of sage Kapila in Patala Loka - nether world!
  • Sagara deputed his sixty thousand sons to go in search of it and bring it back! They discerned a cave in the northwest and a sage sitting in deep samadhi totally oblivious of his surroundings.
  • To their pleasant shock and surprise, they saw the horse in pursuit of which they had travelled tirelessly and in despair! They mistook the sage for a thief who had stolen the horse! The sage was Kapila, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu himself! The moment he opened his eyes, all the sixty thousand sons of Sagara were reduced to a heap of ashes on account of the tremendous power of his tapas (penance)!
  • Sagara was the 39th king in the Suryavamsa lineage. He wanted to perform the Aswamedha Yajna (fire ritual) to assert his supremacy in the kingdom.
  • King Sagara was In a dilemma. Finally, his grandson Amsumantha pacified sage Kapila and brought back a horse, thereby completing the yajna.