Shiva Purana
शौनक उवाच ॥ सगरस्यात्मजा वीराः कथं जाता महाबलाः ॥ विक्रांताः षष्टिसाहस्रा विधना केन वा वद ॥ १॥
Śaunaka said:— How were the heroic sons of Sagara born? By what means did the sixty thousand of them become valorous?
english translation
zaunaka uvAca ॥ sagarasyAtmajA vIrAH kathaM jAtA mahAbalAH ॥ vikrAMtAH SaSTisAhasrA vidhanA kena vA vada ॥ 1॥
hk transliteration by Sanscript