Canto 1 - Boyhood
Bāla-kāṇḍa
Chapter 44: Bhagīratha Delivers his Uncles
Text 1.44.3
तारिता नरशार्दूल दिवं याताश्च देववत्।
षष्टिः पुत्रसहस्राणि सगरस्य महात्मनः॥
tāritā nara-śārdūla divaṁ yātāś ca devavat
ṣaṣṭiḥ putra-sahasrāṇi sagarasya mahātmanaḥ
tāritāḥ = have been delivered; nara-śārdūla = O tiger among men; divam = to the heavens; yātāḥ = sent; ca = and; devavat = like the demigods; ṣaṣṭiḥ putra-sahasrāṇi = the 60,000 sons; sagarasya = Sagara; mahā-ātmanaḥ= of the great soul.
O tiger among men, the 60,000 sons of the great soul Sagara have been delivered and sent to the heavens like the demigods.
1 The sons of Sagara had become pretas, ghostlike creatures, when they were burnt into ashes by Lord Kapila.
The sons of Sagara were delivered from their ghostlike existence.1