Jantu

King Somaka has one hundred wives but only a single son, Jantu, born after a lifetime of effort. When an ant bite makes the child cry and the entire palace erupts in lamentation, the king is forced to confront the fragility of his entire lineage — and asks his priest if there is any ceremony, good or bad, that can give him one hundred sons.

King Somaka, desperate for a hundred sons, performs a sacrifice in which his only son Jantu is offered into the fire. The mothers of Jantu scream and try to pull him back, but the officiating priest drags the boy away and completes the rite — and the mothers, inhaling the smoke, fall down.