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Maruto ha vai devaviśo 'ntarikṣabhājanās. tebhyo ha yo 'nivedya svargaṃ lokam etīśvarā hainaṃ ni va roddhor vi vā mathitoḥ. sa ad āha: svasti rāye maruto dadhātaneti, tam Marudbhyo devaviḍbhyo yajamānaṃ nivedayati; na ha vā enam Maruto devaviśaḥ svargaṃ lokaṃ yantaṃ nirundhate, na vimathnate svasti hainam atyarjanti svargaṃ lokam abhi ya evaṃ veda virājāv etasya haviṣaḥ sviṣṭakṛtaḥ saṃyājye syātāṃ ye trayastriṃśadakṣare sed agnir agnīm̐r aty astv anyān, sed agnir yo vanuṣyato nipātīty ete virāḍbhyāṃ vā iṣṭvā devāḥ svargaṃ lokam ajayaṃs, tathaivaitad yajamāno virāḍbhyām iṣṭvā svargaṃ lokaṃ jayati te trayastriṃśadakṣare bhavatas. trayastriṃśad vai devā: aṣṭau Vasava, ekādaśa Rudrā, dvādaśādityāḥ, Prajāpatiś ca Vaṣaṭkāraś ca. tat prathame yajñamukhe devatā akṣarabhājaḥ karoty, akṣareṇākṣareṇaiva tad devatām prīṇāti, devapātreṇaiva tad devatās tarpayati > i. 10 (ii. 4). The invitatory and offering verses of this oblation contain the words ‘forward’, ‘lead’, ‘path’, and ‘prosperity’; having sacrificed with them the gods won the world of heaven; verily thus also the sacrificer having sacrificed with them wins the world of heaven. In them there is the line, ‘Prosperity for wealth do ye, O Maruts, bestow’; the Maruts, as subjects of the gods, occupy the atmosphere; whoever without notification to them goes to the world of heaven they are likely to obstruct him or to crush him. In that he says, ‘Prosperity for wealth do ye, O Maruts, bestow,’ he announces the sacrificer to the Maruts the subjects of the gods; > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > the Maruts, the subjects of the gods, do not obstruct him as he goes to the world of heaven, nor do they crush him. Prosperously they speed him to the world of heaven who knows thus. The invitatory and offering verses of the oblation for Sviṣṭakṛt should be the two Virāj verses of thirty-three syllables, ‘May Agni here be above the other Agnis’ and ‘The Agni who guardeth from the foe’. Having sacrificed with the two Virāj verses, the gods won the world of heaven; verily thus also the sacrificer having sacrificed with two Virāj verses wins the world of heaven. They are of thirty-three syllables; the gods are thirty-three, eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Ādityas, Prajāpati, and the vaṣaṭ call. Thus at the very beginning of the sacrifice he makes the deities sharers in the syllables; verily thus syllable by syllable he delights a deity; verily thus by a vessel for the gods he gladdens the deities. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.1.9) - [Next: 1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.1.11) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.1) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-keith.1.2.p9) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-mt.1.10) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (3) - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Vedārthaprakāśa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!sayana.1.p115) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit - [Sukhapradā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!sadgurusisya) — Ṣaḍguruśiṣya, Sanskrit - [Vedārthaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!madhava-alias-sayanacarya) — Mādhava alias Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (4) - [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.351) — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English - [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.7672) — Maurice Bloomfield, English - [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v1.c17.s11.25) — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English - [On the Aindra School of Sanskrit Grammarians, their Place in the Sanskrit and Subordinate Literatures](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.burnell-1875.c5.148) — A. C. Burnell, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.1.10) · Pramāṇa