Aitareyabrahmana 7.28

7.28

yatrendraṃ devatāḥ paryavṛñjan:
Viśvarūpaṃ Tvāṣṭram abhyamaṃsta, Vṛtram astṛta,
yatīn sālāvṛkebhyaḥ prādād, arurumaghān avadhīd,
Bṛhaspateḥ pratyavadhīd iti:
tatrendraḥ somapīthena vyārdhyatendrasyānu vyṛddhiṃ kṣatraṃ
somapīthena vyārdhyatāpīndraḥ somapīthe 'bhavat Tvaṣṭur āmuṣya somaṃ.
tad vyṛddham evādyāpi kṣatraṃ somapīthena.
sa yas tam bhakṣaṃ vidyād yaḥ kṣatrasya somapithena
vyṛiddhasya yena kṣatraṃ samṛdhyate,
kathaṃ taṃ veder utthāpayantīti
vettha brāhmaṇa tvaṃ tam bhakṣā+m \ veda hīti.
taṃ vai no brāhmaṇa brūhīti.
tasmai vai te rājann, iti hovāca

vii. 28 (xxxv. 2). ‘When the gods excluded Indra (saying) ‘He hath misused Viçvarūpa, son of Tvaṣṭṛ, he hath laid low Vṛtra, he hath given the Yatis to the hyaenas, he hath killed the Arurmaghas, he hath contended with Bṛhaspati’, then Indra was deprived of the Soma drinking, and in accordance with the deprivation of Indra the lordly power was deprived of the Soma drinking. Indra obtained later a share in the Soma drinking, having stolen the Soma of Tvaṣṭṛ, but to day even the lordly power is deprived of

Soma drinking. How can they remove from the altar him who knows the food which belongs to the lordly power now that it is deprived of the Soma drink, and by which the holy power is made prosperous?’ ‘Dost thou know, O Brahman, this food?’ (he asked) ‘I know it’ (he replied).

‘Do thou tell it to me, O Brahman’ (he said). ‘(I shall tell it) to thee, O king’ he said.