Puranas refer to stories of three rishis who, while still in their mother's wombs, get very angry at the cruelties, injustices and meanness of people around them. So, they try to destroy the world. They are stopped in time by their parents, or elders.

The gods had taken Dadhichi bones to fashion a weapon called the Vajra. With this weapon, their king, Indra, could defeat the Asura Vritra. But, it had cost Dadhichi's life. His wife Swarcha gave birth to Pippalada, under the Pipal tree. When he learnt about how his father died in the service of the devas, he got very angry. He planned to destroy the devas with his anger. His mother, however, begged him to remove anger from his body and cast it away, because anger is unfruitful. Pippalada did as told.