"The Maruts, children of Rudra , are not divinities superior to their fierce and mighty Father; but they have manyhymns addressed to them and are far more constantly mentioned in connection with other gods, because the function they fulfilled was of a constant and immediateimportance in the Vedic discipline. On the other hand, Vishnu, Rudra, Brahmanaspati, the Vedic originals of the later Puranic Triad, Vishnu-Shiva-Brahrna , provide the conditions of the Vedic work and assist it from behind the more present and active gods, but are less close to it and in appearance less continually concerned in its daily movements."