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MANDALA V, HYMN 53.
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MANDALA V, HYMN 53. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYÅYA 8, VARGA 11-13.
TO THE Maruts (THE STORM-GODS). 1. Who knows their birth? or who was of yore in the favour of the Maruts, when they harnessed the spotted deer 1 ?
2. Who has heard them when they had mounted their chariots, how they went forth? For the sake of what liberal giver (Sudás) did they run, and their comrades followed ", (as) streams of rain (filled) with food ?
3. They themselves said to me when day by day! they came to the feast with their birds : they (the Maruts) are manly youths and blameless ; seeing them, praise them thus ;
4. They who shine by themselves in their ornaments, their daggers, their garlands, their golden chains, their rings, going on their chariots and on dry land.
5. O Maruts, givers of quickening rain, I am made to rejoice, following after your chariots, as after days going with rain.
6. The bucket which the bounteous heroes shook down from heaven for their worshipper, that cloud they send 1 along heaven and earth, and showers follow on the dry land.
7. The rivers having pierced 1 the air with a rush of water, went forth like milk-cows; when your spotted deer roll about ? like horses that have hasted to the resting-place on their road.
8. Come hither, O Maruts, from heaven, from the sky, even from near?; do not go far away!
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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 |