Śāṅkhāyana (Kauṣītaki) Āraṇyaka 5.1

5.1

ŚĀ 5,1 = KU 3,1
pratardano ha vai daivodāsir indrasya priyaṃ dhāmopajagāma yuddhena ca pauruṣeṇa ca | taṃ indra uvāca pratardanaṃ varaṃ vṛṇīṣveti | sa hovāca pratardanaḥ - tvam eva me vṛṇīṣva yaṃ tvaṃ manuṣyāya hitatamaṃ manyasa iti | taṃ indra uvāca - na vai varo 'varasmai vṛṇīte | tvam eva vṛṇīṣveti | avaro vai kila meti hovāca pratardanaḥ | atho khalvindraḥ satyād eva neyāya | satyaṃ hīndraḥ | taṃ hendra uvāca - mām eva vijānīhi | etad evāhaṃ manuṣyāya hitatamaṃ manye yo māṃ vijānīyāt | triśīrṣāṇaṃ tvāṣṭram ahanam | arurmukhān yatīn sālāvṛkebhyaḥ prāyacchham | bahvīḥ saṃdhā atrikramya divi prahlādīyān atṛṇaham antarikṣe, paulomān pṛthivyāṃ kālakhañjā | tasya me tatra na lomacanāmīyata | sa yo māṃ veda na ha vai tasya kena ca karmaṇā loko mīyate | na steyena na bhrūṇahatyayā na mātṛvadhena na pitṛvadhena | nādya pāpaṃ cakruṣo mukhān nīlaṃ vyetīti ||

ŚĀ 5.1 = KU 3.1
Pratardana Daivodāsi indeed arrived at the beloved abode of Indra by fighting and by manly valour. Indra said to him: 'Pratardana, choose a boon.' Pratardana said: 'Do you yourself choose for me that which you consider most beneficial for a human being.' Indra said to him: 'The superior does not choose for the inferior. Do you choose yourself.' 'Then it is not a boon for me,' Pratardana said. But Indra did not depart from truth, for Indra is truth. Indra said to him: 'Know me alone. This indeed I consider most beneficial for a human being: that he should know me. I slew the three-headed son of Tvaṣṭṛ. I delivered the Arurmagha ascetics to the wild jackals. Transgressing many treaties, I crushed the Prahlāda demons in the sky, the Puloma demons in the intermediate space, and the Kālakhañja demons upon earth. Of me in that state, not even a single hair was harmed. Whoever knows me thus, his world is not harmed by any deed whatsoever, not by theft, not by the killing of an embryo, not by the murder of his mother, not by the murder of his father. If he has committed evil, the dark colour does not depart from his face.'