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MANBALA I, HYMN 38.
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MANDALA I, HYMN 38. ASHTAKA I, ADHYÅYA 3, VARGA 15–17.
TO THE Maruts (THE STORM-GODS). 1. What then now? When will you take (us) as a dear father takes his son by both hands, O ye gods, for whom the sacred grass has been trimmed ? ?
2. Where now? On what errand of yours are you going, in heaven, not on earth? Where are your cows sporting ?
3. Where are your newest favours, O Maruts ? Where the blessings ? Where all delights ?
4. If you, sons of Prisni, were mortals, and your praiser an immortal", —
5. Then never should your praiser be unwelcome, like a deer in pasture grass, nor should he go on the path of Yama :
6. Let not one sin after another, difficult to be conquered, overcome us; may it depart together with greed.
7. Truly they are terrible and powerful; even to the desert the Rudriyas bring rain that is never dried up
8. The lightning lows like a cow, it follows as a mother follows after her young, when the shower (of the Maruts) has been let loose'.
9. Even by day the Maruts create darkness with the water-bearing cloud", when they drench the earth.
10. Then from the shouting of the Maruts over the whole space of the earth ?, men reeled forward. II. Maruts on your strong-hoofed never-wearying 3
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