Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA X, HYMN 77. ASHTAKA VIII, ADHYÅYA 3, VARGA 10-11.
TO THE Maruts (THE STORM-GODS). 1. Let me with my voice shower 1 wealth like cloud-showers?, like sacrifices of a sage, rich in oblations. I have praised the goodly host of the Maruts, so that they may be worthy of a Brahman“, so that they may be glorious.
2. These boys have prepared their ornaments for beauty, the goodly host of the Maruts, through many nights; the sons of Dyu struggled, like harts, they, the Adityas, grew high, like banners ?
3. They who by their own might seem to have risen above heaven and earth, like the sun above the cloud, they are glorious, like brilliant heroes, they shine forth like foe-destroying youths.
4. When you move along on the bottom of the waters, the earth seems to break and to melt!. This perfect sacrifice is meet for you, come hither together, as if enjoying our offerings.
5. You are as drivers on the poles with their reins, and as brilliant with light at daybreak; like hawks, you are famous destroyers of foes; like wells ? springing forth, you scatter moisture.
6. When you, O Maruts, come from afar, knowing the great treasure of the hidden place, O Vasus, the treasure which has to be gained, then keep away also from afar all who hate us.
7. The man who, firm in his sacrifice, offers gifts to the Maruts to the end of the ceremony!, he
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