सर्वापूर्वमियं येषामासीत् कृत्स्ना वसुंधरा। प्रजापतिमुपादाय नृपाणां जयशालिनाम्॥ येषां स सगरो नाम सागरो येन खानितः। षष्टिपुत्रसहस्राणि यं यान्तं पर्यवारयन्॥ इक्ष्वाकूणामिदं तेषां राज्ञा वंशे महात्मनाम्। महदुतान्नमाख्यानं रामायणमिति श्रुतम्॥
sarvāpūrvamiyaṃ yeṣāmāsīt kṛtsnā vasuṃdharā| prajāpatimupādāya nṛpāṇāṃ jayaśālinām|| yeṣāṃ sa sagaro nāma sāgaro yena khānitaḥ| ṣaṣṭiputrasahasrāṇi yaṃ yāntaṃ paryavārayan|| ikṣvākūṇāmidaṃ teṣāṃ rājñā vaṃśe mahātmanām| mahadutānnamākhyānaṃ rāmāyaṇamiti śrutam||
English Meaning
This great story of Rämāyana treats of those victorious kings commencing with Prajāpati, and having Ikşvāku for their founder, who ruled the entire earth as no other kings had done so before them, and in whose line Sagara was born Sagara who dug the ocean, and whom, while out in progress, his sixty-thousand sons followed.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)