Original sentence: Elsewhere in Vedic mythology, Indra uses Maya to conquer Vritra.Māyā, in such examples, connotes powerful magic, which both devas (gods) and asuras (demons) use against each other.One titled Māyā-bheda (मायाभेद:, Discerning Illusion) includes hymns 10.177.1 through 10.177.3, as the battle unfolds between the good and the evil, as follows,.The Yajurveda describes māyā as an unfathomable plan.The above Maya-bheda hymn discerns, using symbolic language, a contrast between mind influenced by light (sun) and magic (illusion of Asura).The hymn is a call to discern one's enemies, perceive artifice, and distinguish, using one's mind, between that which is perceived and that which is unperceived.The use of word Māyā in Rig veda, in the later era context of "magic and power of illusion", occurs in many hymns.These words have various meanings, with interpretations that are contested, and some are names of deities that do not appear in texts of 1st millennium BCE and later.Words related to and containing Māyā, such as Mayava, occur many times in the Vedas
Edited sentence: In early Vedic literature, Indra uses Maya to conquer Vritra.In the later Rig Vedic phase, Varuna is dubbed 'chief of the evil spirits'.Next Prajapati rises, and he becomes the sole owner of Māyā, that is, white magic which benefits gods and men.Radhakrishnan interprets the word Maya in Rig veda to signify might and power.The Yajurveda also describes māyā as an unfathomable plan.The association of Varuna with Nritti, death, thus connects Maya with the power of life of the departed souls.The asuras (demons), on the other hand, now wielded black magic to harass the gods (devas).The asuras, dubbed demons, are said to have lost their Māyā due to Varuna's power.The term Māyā occurs 70 times in Rigveda and around 27 times in the Atharvaveda; and in all these places Yaska, Sayana, Dayananda Saraswati agree the term means jnana-vishesha (specific knowledge)