सर्गः ४०

In which Aṃśumān questions direction-elephants, mourns ash-heaped fathers, learns from Garuḍa Gaṅgā alone frees them, returns horse, and Sagara completes sacrifice and dies

Sagara sends Aṃśumān to trace fathers and horse-thief — Aṃśumān takes bow and sword down fathers path — Aṃśumān questions direction-elephants and wins blessing — Aṃśumān finds ash-heaped fathers and laments slaying — Aṃśumān finds sacrificial horse grazing nearby — Garuḍa tells Kapila burnt fathers, Gaṅgā alone frees them — Aṃśumān returns horse and reports Garuḍa words — Sagara completes sacrifice, rules thirty thousand years and dies