Shloka 20
Marutta’s Sacrifice: Indra’s Threat, Saṃvarta’s Mantric Restraint, and Divine Reconciliation (अध्याय १०)
ततो देवै: सहितो देवराजो रथे युड्क््त्वा तान् हरीन् वाजिमुख्यान् । आयाद् यज्ञमथ राज्ञ: पिपासु- राविक्षितस्याप्रमेयस्थ सोमम्
tato devaiḥ sahito devarājo rathe yuktvā tān harīn vājimukhyān | āyād yajñam atha rājñaḥ pipāsur āvikṣitasyāprameyastha somam ||
Alors Indra, roi des dieux, accompagné des autres divinités, attela à son char ces coursiers d’élite, d’un blanc fauve. Assoiffé de boire le Soma, il se rendit au sacrifice du roi Marutta, fils d’Avikṣit, dont la puissance était sans mesure ; entrant ainsi dans l’enceinte où le privilège céleste rencontre le mérite royal et où s’éprouve l’éthique qui commande d’honorer un rite digne.
संवर्त उवाच
Educational Q&A
A worthy sacrifice grounded in royal merit can draw even the gods; ritual honor (Soma offering) is portrayed as a moral economy where divine beings acknowledge human excellence and properly conducted yajña.
Indra, with the other gods, harnesses his best horses to his chariot and comes to King Marutta’s sacrificial hall, eager to partake of the Soma offered in the yajña.