Vedic Mythology c5.s2.t5.6

c5.s2.t5.6

The Maruts ride on cars which gleam with lightning (1, 88¹; 3, 54¹³), which are golden (5, 57¹), which have golden wheels or fellies (1, 64¹¹. 88⁵), in which are weapons (5, 57⁶), and which have buckets standing in them (1, 87²). The coursers which draw their cars are ruddy or tawny (1, 88²; 5, 57⁴), golden-footed (8, 7²⁷), and swift as thought (1, 85⁴). These coursers are spotted, as appears from the epithet *pṛṣadaśva*, ‘having spotted steeds’, which is several times and exclusively connected with the Maruts. More frequently the animals which draw their car are spoken of in the feminine as *pṛṣatīḥ* (1, 39⁶ &c.). These are in two passages (5, 55⁶. 58⁶), mentioned with the masculine *aśvāḥ*. The Maruts are also described as having yoked the winds as steeds to their pole (5, 58⁷).