Verse 26

²⁶He was disheartened, and had a hundred wives with him; and the sages there, who felt for him, carried out a rite for Indra with the whole of their attention. ²⁷At night the king, thirsty, went into that hall of sacrifice, saw the brahmins lying asleep, and drank the water charged with the mantra himself. ²⁸When they got up and saw the jar empty of water, master, they asked: Whose doing is this? Who has drunk the water that brings a son? ²⁹Knowing that it had indeed been drunk by the king, who had been set on to it by the Lord, they bowed to the Lord and said: Ah, the strength of what is ordained is the only strength. ³⁰Then, when the time came round, a son was born to Yuvanasva, a turner of the wheel of rule, splitting open his right side.

³¹Whom will this boy suck? He is crying hard for milk. Me he shall suck. Do not cry, child, said Indra, and gave him his forefinger. ³²His father did not die, by the favour of the brahmins and of the god; and Yuvanasva, right where he was, came to perfection by austerity. ³³Indra gave him the name Trasaddasyu, dear one, because of him the robbers, Ravana and the rest, shake with alarm.