In the Mahā Bhārata (Vaṇa Parva, cvi), a wife of King Sāgara bore a gourd. The King was about to throw it away, but a celestial voice ordered him to preserve the seeds carefully, and each became a son; these were sixty thousand in number.
In Korean Tales (Dr. H. N. Allen), p. 98 ff., a number of people made their appearance out of gourds which grew on plants obtained from seeds brought by swallows.
No. 154
The Story of the Shell Snail
In a certain country there are a Gamarāla and a Gama-mahan̆gē (his wife), it is said. The children of those two are two sons and a daughter. The big son one day having worked a rice field, at noon came home for food. The Gama-mahan̆gē was a little late in giving the food. The son quarrelled [with her] over it. That day at night the Gama-mahan̆gē spoke to the Gamarāla that he must bring and give an assistant (a wife) to the son.
On the next day the Gamarāla having gone to seek a girl, while he was going asking and asking from village to village, in even a single place he did not meet with a girl.