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VEDIC HYMNS.
Fulfil (our prayer) like the udder of a barren cow?, and make the prayer glorious by booty to the singer.
7. Grant us this strong horse for our chariot, a draught that rouses our prayers, from day to day, food to the singers, and to the poet in our homesteads2 luck, wisdom, inviolable and invincible strength.
8. When the gold-breasted Maruts harness the horses to their chariots, bounteous) in wealth, then it is as if a cow in the folds poured out? to her calf copious food, to every man who has offered libations.
9. Whatever mortal enemy may have placed us among wolves", shield us from hurt, ye Vasus! Turn the wheels with burning heat? against him, and strike down the weapon of the impious fiend, O Rudras!
10. Your march, O Maruts, appears brilliant, whether even friends have milked the udder of Prisni, or whether, O sons of Rudra, you mean to blame him who praises you, and to weaken those who are weakening Trita, O unbeguiled heroes?.
11. We invoke you, the great Maruts, the constant wanderers, at the offering of the rapid Vishnu?; holding ladles (full of libations and prayerful we ask the golden-coloured and exalted Maruts for glorious wealth.
12. The Dasagvas (Maruts ?)1 carried on the sacrifice first ; may they rouse us at the break of dawn. Like the dawn, they uncover the dark nights with the red (rays), the strong ones, with their brilliant light, as with a sea of milk.
13. With the (morning) clouds, as if with glittering red ornaments, these Maruts have grown great in the sacred places?. Streaming down with rush
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| SR No. | 007673 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 03 |
| 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 |