Kansa addresses his friends, announces their danger and orders male children to be put to death - Verse 21
Vishnu Purana (GRETIL; M. M. Pathak critical edition) · 4 · Verse 4.21
Sanskrit Original
यन न केवलम अभिसंधिपूर्वकं स्नानाद्युपभोगेषूपकारकम अनभिसंहितम अप्य अपेतप्राणस्यास्थिचर्मस्नायुकेशाद्युत्सृष्टं शरीरजम यद भूपतितम शरीरिणं सद्यः स्वर्गं नयतीत्य उक्तः प्रणम्य च भगवते ऽश्वम आदाय पितामहयज्ञम आजगाम।।
yan na kevalam abhisaṃdhipūrvakaṃ snānādyupabhogeṣūpakārakam anabhisaṃhitam apy apetaprāṇasyāsthicarmasnāyukeśādyutsṛṣṭaṃ śarīrajam yad bhūpatitam śarīriṇaṃ sadyaḥ svargaṃ nayatīty uktaḥ praṇamya ca bhagavate 'śvam ādāya pitāmahayajñam ājagāma||
That which is not only beneficial for bathing and other enjoyments but also is not connected with any intention, even that which is produced from the body of one who has departed from life, is said to lead the embodied being to heaven. Thus, bowing to the Lord, he took a horse and went to perform the ancestral sacrifice.