N. of an ancient king of the solar dynasty, the great-grand- son of Sagara, who brought down, by practising the most austere pen- ance, the celestial river Ganges from heaven to the earth and from earth to the lower regions to purify the ashes of his 60000 ancestors, the sons of Sagara. Comp. pathaḥ, prayatnaḥ the path or effort of Bhagīratha, [Page0806-b+ 56] used figuratively to denote any great of Herculean...