An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s6.156

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[Indravijaya(h)] ("the victory of Indra"). § 555: Questioned by Yudhiṣṭhira about the misery endured by Indra and Ḉacī, Ḉalya related: Once the Prajāpati Tvaṣṭṛ, from antipathy to Indra, created a son who had three heads (one for reading the Vedas; the second for drinking wine; with the third he looked as if he were about to absorb the four quarters), called Viçvarūpa. Beholding his austerities, Indra became alarmed, and in vain caused Apsarases to tempt him; then he slew him with his thunderbolt (thinking, "I shall afterwards perform some religious ceremony"), but was yet afraid of his appearance, and prevailed upon a carpenter to cut off the heads (promising, "in sacrifices men will give thee the head of the sacrificial animal as thy share"); out flew birds—(1) partridges, (2) sparrows and hawks, (3) quails. Then Tvaṣṭṛ created Vṛtra, who swallowed up Indra. The gods created Jṛmbhikā ("yawning"); Vṛtra yawned (therefore yawned itself to the living breath c' animated beings), and Indra emerged. Tvaṣṭṛ strengthened Vṛtra; Indra returned; the gods consulted with the munis, and sitting on Mount Mandara, they thought of Viṣṇu (V, 9). Indra, with D. and R., repaired to Viṣṇu (b), who taught them, with R. and G., to make eternal friendship between Indra and Vṛtra ("I may not be killed either by what is dry or wet, stone, wood, weapons, by day or night, by Indra or D.," said Vṛtra). Indra then slew him in the evening with froth blended with the thunderbolt, in which Viṣṇu had entered. D., G., Y., M.-U., and R. glorified Indra. But Indra was overpowered by falsehood (anṛta) and brahmanicide (brahmahatyā), and became bereft of his consciousness, and lay concealed in water; the earth became treeless, the rivers were interrupted, the rains ceased (V, 10). Then R. and D. (also P. and G., ch. 16) crowned Nahuṣa os king of D., giving him their tapas: "whatever being may stand within thy sight—D., Dā., Y., Rā., P., G., Bh.—thou shalt absorb his power." Nahuṣa then assumed a sensual turn of mind, amusing himself with Aps. and devakanyāḥ and Viçrāvasu, Nārada, G., and the six seasons, in Nandana, and on Kailāsa, Himavat, Mandara, Çveta, Sahya, Mahendra, Malaya, etc. He ordained that Ḉacī should wait upon him. Ḉacī (c) repaired to Bṛhaspati, who promised soon to unite her with Indra (V, 11). Nahuṣa became enraged; the earth, with As., G., K., M.-U., trembled;