Aitareyabrahmana 7.15

7.15

atha haikṣvākaṃ Varuṇo jagrāha, tasya hodaraṃ jajñe.
tad u ha Rohitaḥ śuśrāva, so 'raṇyād grāmam eyāya.
tam Indraḥ puruṣarūpeṇa paryetyovāca:
nānā śrāntāya śrīr astīti Rohita śuśruma \
pāpo nṛṣadvaro jana Indra ic carataḥ sakhā \\
caraiveti
caraiveti vai mā brāhmaṇo 'vocad,
iti ha dvitīyaṃ saṃvatsaram araṇye cacāra.
so 'raṇyād grāmam eyāya, tam Indraḥ puruṣarūpeṇa paryetyovāca:
puṣpiṇyau carato jaṅghe bhūṣṇur ātmā phalagrahiḥ \
śere 'sya sarve pāpmānaḥ śrameṇa prapathe hatāś \\
caraiveti
caraiveti vai mā brāhmaṇo 'vocad,
iti ha tṛtīyaṃ saṃvatsaram araṇye cacāra.
so 'raṇyād grāmam eyāya, tam Indraḥ puruṣarūpeṇa paryetyovāca:
āste bhaga āsīnasyordhvas tiṣṭhati tiṣṭhataḥ \
śete nipadyamānasya carāti carato bhagaś \\
caraiveti
caraiveti vai mā brāhmaṇo 'vocad,
iti ha caturthaṃ saṃvatsaram araṇye cacāra.
so 'raṇyād grāman eyāya, tam Indraḥ puruṣarūpeṇa paryetyovāca:
Kaliḥ śayāno bhavati saṃjihānas tu Dvāparaḥ \
uttiṣṭhaṃs Tretā bhavati Kṛtaṃ sampadyate caraṃś \\
caraiveti
caraiveti vai mā brāhmaṇo 'vocad,
iti ha pañcamaṃ saṃvatsaram araṇye cacāra.
so 'raṇyād grāmam eyāya, tam Indraḥ puruṣarūpeṇa paryetyovāca:
caran vai madhu vindati caran svādum udumbaram \
sūryasya paśya śremāṇaṃ yo na tandrayate caraṃś \\
caraiveti
caraiveti vai mā brāhmaṇo 'vocad,
iti ha ṣaṣṭhaṃ saṃvatsaram araṇye cacāra.
so 'jīgartaṃ Sauyavasim ṛṣim aśanāyāparītam araṇya upeyāya
tasya ha trayaḥ putrā āsuḥ:
Śunaḥpuchaḥ Śunaḥśepaḥ Śunolāṅgūla
iti.
taṃ hovāca:
ṛṣe 'haṃ te śataṃ dadāmy, aham eṣām ekenātmānaṃ niṣkrīṇā iti.
sa jyeṣṭham putraṃ nigṛhṇāna uvāca:
na nv imam iti, no evemam iti kaniṣṭham mātā.
tau ha madhyame sampādayāṃ cakratuḥ Śunaḥśepe.
tasya ha śataṃ dattvā sa tam ādāya so 'raṇyād grāmam eyāya
sa pitaram etyovāca:
tata hantāham anenātmānaṃ niṣkrīṇā iti.
sa Varuṇaṃ rājānam upasasārānena tvā yajā iti.
tatheti, bhūyan vai brāhmaṇaḥ kṣatriyād iti Varuṇa uvāca.
tasmā etaṃ rājasūyaṃ yajñakratum provāca.
tam etam abhiṣecanīye puruṣam paśum ālebhe

vii. 15 (xxxiii. 3). Then Varuṇa seized Aikṣvāka; his belly swelled up. This Rohita heard; he went from the wild to the village. To him Indra came in human form and said

‘“Manifold is the prosperity of him who is weary,”
So have we heard, O Rohita;
Evil is he who stayeth among men,
Indra is the comrade of the wanderer.

Do thou wander’. (Thinking) ‘This Brahman hath bidden me “wander”, he wandered for a second year in the wild. He came from the wild to the village. To him came Indra in human form and said

‘Flower-like the heels of the wanderer,
His body groweth and is fruitful;
All his sins disappear,
Slain by the toil of his journeying.

Do thou wander’. (Thinking) ‘This Brahman hath bidden me “wander”, he wandered for a third year in the wild. He came from the wild to the village. To him came Indra in human form and said

‘The fortune of him who sitteth also sitteth,
But that of him who standeth standeth erect;
That of him that reclineth lieth down;
The fortune of him that moveth shall move indeed.

Do thou wander.’ (Thinking) ‘This Brahman hath bidden me “wander”, he wandered for a fourth year in the wild. He came from the wild to the village. To him came Indra in human form and said

‘Kali he becometh who lieth,
Dvāpara when he riseth,
Tretā when he standeth erect
And Kṛta when he moveth.

Do thou wander.’ (Thinking) ‘This Brahman hath bidden me “wander”, he wandered for a fifth year in the wild. He came from the wild to the village; to him Indra came in human form and said

‘Wandering one findeth honey,
Wandering the sweet Udumbara fruit,
Consider the pre-eminence of the sun,
Who wearieth never of wandering.’

Do thou wander.’ (Thinking) ‘This Brahman hath bidden me “wander”, he wandered for a sixth year in the wild. He found in the wild Ajīgarta Sauyavasi, a seer, overcome with hunger. Three sons were his, Çunaḥpucha, Çunaḥçepa, and Çunolāṅgūla. He said to him ‘O seer, I offer thee a hundred; let me redeem myself with one of these.’ Keeping back the eldest son, he said ‘Not this one’; ‘nor this one’ (said) the mother, (keeping back) the youngest son. They made an agreement regarding the middle one, Çunaḥçepa. Having given a hundred for him, taking him, he went from the wild to the village. Going to his father he said, ‘O father dear, come, let me redeem myself with this one.’ He went to Varuṇa, the king (saying) ‘With this one let me sacrifice to thee.’ ‘Be it so’ (he replied); ‘A Brahman is higher than a Kṣatriya’ Varuṇa said. To him he proclaimed this sacrificial rite, the Rājasūya. On the day of anointing he took the man as victim.