Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 58.364

58.364

te prajāpatimeva janayitārametyābruvanna vā anyo'nyasya śreṣṭhatāyai tiṣṭhāmahai
tannassṛjasva yo na īśātā iti
sa prajāpatirabravīdetāvadvāva tyasmiṃsteja indriyaṃ vīryamabhūdyadyuṣmānasṛkṣi
te vai saṃvatsaraṃ tapyadhvam
te mā saṃvatsaraṃ taptvopasameta yadeko'dhigacchati yadeko yadeka iti
te saṃvatsaramatapyanta
taṃ saṃvatsaraṃ taptvopasamāyan
yadeko'dhyagacchadyadeko yadekastadasya manyau yonāvasiñcan
tata indrassaṃbhavat
tadeṣābhyanūcyate
aśvādiyāyeti yadvadantyojaso jātamuta manya enam
manyoriyāya harmyeṣū tasthau yataḥ prajajña indro asya veda
iti
manyoriyāyeti yadasya manyau yonāvasiñcan
harmyeṣu tasthāviti hṛdayānyu vai harmyāṇi
hṛdayo ha vai krudhyati
ojaso jātamuta manya enam
iti

Having approached Prajāpati himself, their progenitor, they said: 'We certainly do not yield to the pre-eminence of one another. Therefore create for us one who may rule over us.' That Prajāpati said: 'Only this much fiery energy, faculty, and vital power was in me when I created you. Do you therefore practice heat-asceticism for a year. Having practiced heat-asceticism for a year, come together to me with whatever each one finds, whatever each one, whatever each one.' They practiced heat-asceticism for a year. Having practiced heat-asceticism for a year, they came together to him. Whatever each one found, whatever each one, whatever each one, that they poured into his wrath, into his womb. From that Indra was born. About that this [verse] is recited: / 'When they say that he came from a horse, / I rather think he was born from vigor; / he came from wrath, he took his stand in the dwellings; / from where he was born, Indra knows of it.' / 'He came from wrath' refers to the fact that they poured into his wrath, into his womb. 'He took his stand in the dwellings'—the dwellings indeed are the hearts; for the heart becomes angry. 'I rather think he was born from vigor,' thus [the verse says].