Vedic Mythology c5.s2.t5.7

c5.s2.t5.7

The Maruts are great as the sky (5, 57⁴), they surpass heaven and earth (10, 77³), are immeasurable in greatness (5, 58²), and no others can reach the limit of their might (1, 167⁹). The Maruts are young (1, 64². 165²; 5, 42¹⁵) and unaging (1, 64³). They are divine (*asura*), vigorous, impetuous, without soil (1, 64². ¹²) and dustless (6, 66²). They are fierce (1, 19⁴), irascible (7, 56⁸), terrible (5, 56². ³; 7, 58²), of terrible aspect (5, 56²), of fearful form (1, 19⁵. 64²), and are terrible like wild beasts (2, 34¹; cp. p. 75). They are playful like children or calves (1, 166²; 7, 56¹⁶; 10, 78⁶). They are like black-backed swans (7, 59⁷). They are iron-tusked boars (1, 88⁵); they are like lions (1, 64⁸).