History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.33

v6.c81.33

The sense of 'command or law' is quite appropriate in more than half the Ṛgvedic passages in which the word vrata occurs. In some passages the sense of 'religious practices or modes of sacred worship' is suitable. For example, Ṛg. X. 65. 11 says '(the Viśve-devas) that are good donors make the sun rise in heaven and spread about the Ārya vratas over the earth'. Vide also Ṛg. VI. 14. 3.