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VEDIC HYMNS.
friends', having adorned our bodies, we now harness our fallow deer? with all our might 8;—for, Indra, according to custom, thou hast come to be with us.
Indra speaks :
6. Where, O Maruts, was that custom with you, when you left me alone in the killing of Ahi ? I indeed am terrible, powerful, strong, -1 escaped from the blows of every enemy?
The Maruts speak :
7. Thou hast achieved much with us as companions ?. With equal valour, o hero! let us achieve then many things, O thou most powerful, O Indra! whatever we, O Maruts, wish with our mind a
Indra speaks :
8. I slew Vritra, O Maruts, with (Indra's) might, having grown powerful through my own vigour; I, who hold the thunderbolt in my arms, have made these all-brilliant waters to flow freely for man?
The Maruts speak:
9. Nothing, O mighty lord, is strong before thee; no one is known among the gods like unto thee. No one who is now born 8 comes near, no one who has been born. Do what thou wilt do 4, thou who art grown so strong.
Indra speaks :
10. Almighty strength be mine alone, whatever I may do, daring in my heart?; for I indeed, O Maruts, am known as terrible: of all that I threw down, I, Indra, am the lord.
Indra speaks :
11. O Maruts, now your praise has pleased me, the glorious hymn which you have made for me, ye
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