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MANDALA V, HYMN 59.
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MANDALA V, HYMN 59. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYÅYA 3, VARGA 24.
TO THE Maruts (THE STORM-gods). 1. They truly tried to make you grant them welfare. Do thou sing 2 praises to Heaven (Dyu), I offer sacrifice (rita) to the Earth. The Maruts wash their horses and race to the air, they soften their splendour by waving mists.
2. The earth trembles with fear from their onset. She sways like a full ship, that goes rolling The heroes who appear on their marches, visible from afar, strive together within the great (sacrificial) assembly.
3. Your horn is exalted for glory', as the horns of cows; your eye is like the sun ?, when the mist is scattered. Like strong racers, you are beautiful, O heroes, you think of glory, like manly youths 8.
4. Who could reach, O Maruts, the great wise thoughts, who the great manly deeds of you, great ones? You shake the earth like a speck of dust, when you are carried forth for granting welfare.
5. These kinsmen! (the Maruts) are like red horses, like heroes eager for battle, and they have rushed forward to fight. They are like well-grown manly youths, and the men have grown strong, with streams of rain they dim the eye of the sun.
6. At their outbreak there is none among them who is the eldest, or the youngest, or the middle: they have grown by their own might, these sons of Prisni, noble by birth, the boys of Dyaus; come hither to us!
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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 |