Keshini

In Hindu mythology, one of the wives of
King Sagar. Through a sage’s boon,
Keshini and her co-wife Sumati are
given a choice in the number of children
they will bear—one will bear a single son
through whom the lineage will continue,
whereas the other will bear sixty thousand sons who will die before they
have any offspring. Keshini chooses the
former, and through her son
Asamanjasa the line of King Sagar is
preserved. Her descendants are particularly important, since her great-greatgrandson is the sage Bhagirath, who
succeeds in bringing the river Ganges
from heaven to earth.