Sumati

In Hindu mythology, one of the wives of
King Sagar. Through a sage’s boon,
Sumati and her co-wife Keshini are
given a choice in the number of children
they would 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. Sumati chooses the
latter, and when her sixty thousand
handsome sons go out to search for
their father’s sacrificial horse, they are
burned to ash by the fury of the sage
Kapila. Although these sons die without
issue they still have a profound affect on
the world, since Keshini’s descendants
bring the River Ganges down to earth to
bring peace to their souls.