Note 499 — Chapter I
Reading edition
It is well known that the word ikshvâkus has been referred to the word ikshus, the sugar-cane. In the fortieth canto of the first book of the Râmâyaṇam, one of the two wives of Sagaras gives birth to a son who continues his race; the other wife gives birth to an ikshvâkus (gourd or cane) containing 60,000 sons.