Vedic Mythology c5.s4.7

c5.s4.7

He is also the ancestor of the human race in so far as his daughter Saraṇyū, wife of Vivasvat, becomes the mother of the primeval twins Yama and Yamī (10, 17¹· ², cp. 5, 42¹³). Vāyu is once said to be his son-in-law (8, 26²¹). Tvaṣṭṛ begot Bṛhaspati (2, 23¹⁷). Agni produced by the ten fingers, is the offspring of Tvaṣṭṛ (1, 95²), who, along with Heaven and Earth, the Waters, and the Bhṛgus, generated him (10, 2⁷. 46⁹). It is to be inferred that Tvaṣṭṛ was also the father of Indra (p. 57). Tvaṣṭṛ is especially a guardian of Soma, which is called 'the mead of Tvaṣṭṛ' (1, 117²²). It is in his house that Indra drinks Soma and presumately steals it, even slaying his father in order to obtain it (p. 57). The 'omniform' Tvaṣṭṛ has a son named Viśvarūpa (the Omniform), who is a guardian of cows. The hostility of Indra is directed against the son in order to win these cows, just as against the father in order to gain possession of the Soma. Even Tvaṣṭṛ himself is said to tremble with fear at the wrath of Indra (1, 80¹⁴) and is represented as inferior to Indra, inasmuch as not even he was able to perform a feat done by Indra (10, 49¹⁰). The TS. (2, 4, 12¹) tells a story of how Tvaṣṭṛ, whose son had been slain by Indra, refused to allow the latter to assist at his Soma sacrifice, but Indra came and drank off the Soma by force. The Brāhmaṇas often relate a similar tale (ŚB. 1, 6, 3⁶, &c.).