Indra and Virochana approached Prajapathi and lived the life of students for 32 years. They told Prajapathi that their purpose was to know about the atman, said M.K. Srinivasan in a discourse.

In the Chandogya Upanishad (c. 7th century BCE), Indra, king of the Vedic gods, and his nemesis, Virochana, king of the asuras (anti-gods), go to the temple of the creator god, Prajapati ...