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MANDALA I, HYMN 168.
MANDALA I, HYMN 168. ASHTAKA I, ADHYAYA 4, VARGA 6-7.
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TO THE MARUTS (THE STORM-GODS).
1. To every sacrifice1 you hasten together, you accept prayer after prayer, O quick Maruts! Let me therefore bring you hither by my prayers from heaven and earth, for our welfare, and for our great protection;
2. The shakers who were born to bring food and light', self-born and self-supported, like springs, like thousandfold waves of water, aye, visibly like unto excellent bulls 3,
3. Those Maruts, like Soma-drops', which squeezed from ripe stems dwell, when drunk, in the hearts of the worshipper-see how on their shoulders there clings as if a clinging wife; in their hands the quoit is held and the sword.
4. Lightly they have come down from heaven of their own accord: Immortals, stir yourselves with the whip! The mighty Maruts on dustless paths, armed with brilliant spears, have shaken down even the strong places.
5. O ye Maruts, who are armed with lightningspears, who stirs you from within by himself, as the jaws are stirred by the tongue1? You shake the sky, as if on the search for food; you are invoked by many, like the (solar) horse of the day'.
6. Where, O Maruts, is the top, where the bottom of the mighty sky where you came? When you throw down with the thunderbolt what is strong, like brittle things, you fly across the terrible sea!
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| SR No. | 007685 |
| Book Title | Grihya Sutras |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1886 |
| Total Pages | 2642 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |