05009001c duHkhaM prAptaM paraM ghoram etad icchAmi veditum 'yudhiSThira said, 'O foremost of monarchs, I wish to know how it was that great and unparalleled misery had to be endured by the illustrious indra together with his queen.'
05009002 zalya uvAca
05009002a zRNu rAjan purA vRttam itihAsamM purAtanam
05009002c sabhAryeNa yathA prAptanM duHkham indreNa bhArata 'zalya said, 'Listen, O king, to me as I relate this ancient story of the events of former days,--how, O descendant of bharata, misery befell indra and his wife.
05009003a tvaSTA prajApatir hy AsId devazreSTho mahAtapAH Once tvaSTR, the lord of creatures and the foremost of celestials, was engaged in practising rigid austerities.
05009003c sa putraM vai trizirasam indradrohAt kilAsRjat And it is said that from antipathy to indra he created a son having three heads.
05009004a aindraM sa prArthayat sthAnaM vizvarUpo mahAdyutiH And that being of universal form possessed of great lustre hankered after indra's seat.
05009004c tais tribhir vadanair ghoraisH sUryendujvalanopamaiH And possessed of those three awful faces resembling the sun, the moon, and fire,
05009005a vedAn ekena so 'dhIte surAm ekena cApibat he read the Vedas with one face, drank wine with another,
05009005c ekena ca dizasH sarvAH pibann iva nirIkSate and looked with the third as if he would absorb all the cardinal points.
05009006a sa tapasvI mRdur dAnto dharme tapasi codyataH
05009006c tapo 'tapyan mahat tIvraM suduzcaram arinMdama
