yacca dvijatvaṃ kuśiko na lebhe tadgādhanaḥ sūnuravāpa rājan | velāṃ samudre sagaraśca dadhre nekṣvākavo yāṃ prathamaṃ babaṃdhuḥ ||
‘That Brahmanhood which Kuśika never attained, — his son, O king, found out the means to gain it; (so) Sagara made a bound for the ocean, which even the Ikṣvākus had not fixed before him.