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Tales of the Gods
Sixty thousand princes turned to ash in a single instant, and there they stayed for three generations.
Sixty thousand princes were turned to ash in a single instant, and there they stayed.
Not buried. Not burned properly. Ash on the ground, without rites, unable to go anywhere, for three generations.
King Sagara was performing a royal yajna, and the sacrificial horse went missing.
He sent his sons to find it. All sixty thousand of them.
They found it tethered near the hermitage of the sage Kapila, who was sitting in deep meditation. They looked at the horse, and they looked at the man, and they drew the obvious conclusion and accused him of stealing it.
Kapila opened his eyes.
All sixty thousand were ash before the accusation had finished being made.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.