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Agastya's Ancestors Plead for OffspringCh. 391
The sage Agastya discovers his ancestors hanging upside down in a cave, condemned to suffer for lack of descendants. They beg him to father a child to free them from hell — and Agastya, bound by truth, promises he will. But when he searches for a worthy woman to bear his son, he finds none, and so he does something no one has done before: he builds one.