angry, and commanded her sons, saying,—Throw him into the waters of the Ganga.—And at the command of their mother, the wicked Gautama and the other brothers, those slaves of covetousness and folly, exclaiming,—Indeed, why should we support this old man?—tied the Muni on a raft and committing him to the mercy of the stream returned home without compunction. The blind old man drifting along the stream on that raft passed through the territories of many kings. One day a king of name Vali, conversant with every duty, went into the Ganges for performing his ablutions. And as the monarch was thus engaged, the raft on which the Rishi was, approached him. And as it came, the king took up the old man. The virtuous Vali, ever devoted to truth, then learning who the man was that was thus saved by him, chose him for raising up offspring. And Vali said,—O thou illustrious one, it behoveth thee to raise in my wife a few sons that shall be virtuous and wise.—Thus addressed, the Rishi endued with great energy expressed his willingness. Thereupon king Vali sent bis wife Sudeshna unto the Rishi. But the queen knowing that the latter was blind and old went not unto him. Instead, she sent unto him her nurse. And upon that Sudra woman the virtuous Rishi of passions under full control begat eleven children of whom Kakshivan was the eldest. And beholding those eleven sons with Kskshivan as the eldest, who had studied all the Vedas and who like Rishis were utterers of Brahma and possessed of great power, king Vali one day asked the Rishi, saying,—Are these children mine?—The Rishi replied,—No, they are mine. Kakshivan and others have been begotten by me upon a Sudra woman. Thy unfortunate queen Sudeshna seeing me blind and old insulted me by not coming herself but sending unto me, instead, her nurse?—The king then pacified that best of Rishis and sent unto him his queen Sudeshna. The Rishi by merely touching her person told her,—Thou shalt have five children named Anga, Banga, Kalinga, Pundra, and Sumbha, who shall be like unto Surya himself in glory. And after their names as many countries shall be known on Earth.—It is after their names that their dominions have come to be called Anga, Banga, Kalinga, Pundra, and Sumbha.
