We shall not live without the king-even this is our firm resolution. Thereupon the Patriarch Brahmā sent for Indra and other deities and said:Do you all give a portion of your respective energies. Thereupon the deities gave each a portion of their own energies. Thereupon Brahma made a Kșupa or sneezed and there from originated a king under the name of Kșupa. And in his person Brahmă placed in equal proportions the energies of the deities. There after he made Kșupa the foremost king of men. By virtue of the portion of Indra's energy the king Kșupa brought the earth under his control; by that of Varuna's energy he fostered his own body; by Kubera's portion he conferred riches upon his subjects; and by that of Yama he governed them.
न वसामो विना राज्ञा एष नो निश्चयः परः। ततो ब्रह्मा सुरश्रेष्ठो लोकपालान्सवासवान्।। समाहूयाब्रवीत्सवास्तेजोभागान्प्रयच्छत। ततो ददुर्लोकपालाः सर्वे भागान्स्वतेजसः।। अक्षुपच्च ततो ब्रह्मा यतो जातः क्षुपो नृपः। तं ब्रह्मा लोकपालानां समांशैः समयोजयत्।। ततो ददौ नृपं तासां प्रजानामीश्वरं क्षुपम्। तत्रैन्द्रेण च भागेन महीमाज्ञापयन्नृपः।। वारुणेन तु भागेन वपुः पुष्यति पार्थिवः। कौबेरेण तु भागेन वित्तपाभां ददौ तदा।। यस्तु याम्योऽभवद्भागस्तेनशास्ति स्म स प्रजाः।