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Bhagiratha prayed to him and asked him to control the force of Ganga when she would start flowing down from the heaven and thus prevent drowning of Bhoomi and paathaala. It took many decades before Shiva appeared in front of him and asked him for his wish.

Bhagiratha with his strong desire to get Ganga flow down on the ashes started praying and meditating for Lord Shiva standing and balancing all his weight just only on his big toe. A pleased Brahma then told him that there is only one person who could control her might and that is none other than Lord Shiva himself. Listening to this, a disappointed Bhagiratha asked Lord Brahma to suggest an idea to get Ganga down in a controlled fashion. Brahma pleased by his devotion and dedication, told him that he had no problem asking Ganga to flow down but no one would be able to bear her fierceness and sheer force and the Earth along with paathala would be submerged in her. Bhagiratha prayed to Lord Brahma and asked him to allow the sacred heavenly river Ganga to flow down to the Earth and then to paathaala where his grandfathers' ashes were lying so that they would get rid of their sins and go back to heaven. He started tapasya (meditation) towards lord Brahma and continued it for many decades until when finally Lord Brahma appeared in front of him. When he got to know the plight of his grandfathers, he decided to give them a right funeral and wipe of their sins so that they would be eligible to go to heaven. Then from the same family came a great king named Bhagiratha. Anshumantha though finally found his uncles and the horse- could not help his uncles in anyway. Upon seeing no return of any of his sons, king Sagara sent his grandson Anshumantha in search of his sons and the horse. Being disturbed in that deep state of meditation, he opened his eyes with anger thus burning all the 60,000 princes into ashes. Thinking maharshi to be the thief who stole the horse, they started beating him.

Finally, the found the horse standing in front of sage Kapila maharshi who is an incarnation of Vishnu and was in deep meditation at that moment unknown of the horse and chaos. Being impulsive, they set out for the search of the horse and when they got to know that the horse is in paathaala(under the earth), they started digging the earth till they found the Diggajaas (the 4 elephants standing as pillars to support the Earth. King Sagara asked his other 60,000 sons to go and find it at any cost. So in this sequence when the horse was left free, it suddenly disappeared after a few days.

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As part of this yaaga, a horse would be allowed to roam free and any person wishing to stop it would indirectly call for a battle with the king. Later one fine day, King Sagara decided to perform an Ashwamedha yaaga- willing peace and prosperity for his kingdom. 'So Sagara threw his son Asamanjasa out of the kingdom but kept his grandson Anshumantha with him because the grandson knew that what his grandfather did was Dharma. So upon the wives' request Maharshi blessed the Keshini with one son and Sumathi with 60,000 sons who would be highly energetic but does things without a reason. So Bhrigu maharshi blessed him such that one wife would have 60,000 sons and the other wife would have one son. King Sagara asked him to bless him with progeny. Pleased by their devotion Rishi Bhrigu appeared and asked for his wish. To have sons he and his wives went to Bhrigu prasravana parvatha on Himalayas to do his penance and please Maharshi Bhrigu. She was the most beautiful lady that ever lived then. His second wife was the daughter of Arishtanemi prajapathi and her name was 'Sumathi'. She also was a follower of Dharma, generous and truthful all her life. His first wife was the daughter of the king of Vidarbha and her name was 'Keshini'. He was the mightiest king of Ayodhya but also very generous. Once upon a time there was one king in your family named 'Sagara'. 'O prince Rama! Listen as I tell you the descent of River Goddess Ganga to this mere Earth.

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