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MANDALA I, HYMN 37.
MANDALA I, HYMN 37. ASHTAKA I, ADHYAYA 3, VARGA 12-14.
To The Maruts (THE STORM-GODS). 1. Sing forth, O Kanvas, to the sportive host of your Maruts, brilliant on their chariots, and unscathed !, -
2. They who were born together, self-luminous, with the spotted deer (the clouds)', the spears, the daggers, the glittering ornaments .
3. I hear their whips, almost close by, when they crack them in their hands; they gain splendour on their way
4. Sing forth the god-given prayer to the wild 1 host of your Maruts, endowed with terrible vigour ? and strength.
5. Celebrate the bull among the cows (the storm among the clouds)', for it is the sportive host of the Maruts; he grew as he tasted the rain ?.
6. Who, O ye men, is the strongest among you here, ye shakers of heaven and earth, when you shake them like the hem of a garment 1 ?
7. At your approach the son of man holds himself down; the gnarled cloud ' filed at your fierce anger.
8. They at whose racings: the earth, like a hoary king, trembles for fear on their ways,
9. Their birth is strong indeed : there is strength to come forth from their mother, nay, there is vigour twice enough for it?
10. And these sons, the singers ", stretched out the fences in their racings 2; the cows had to walk
knee-deep.
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