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MANDALA V, HYMN 58.
MANDALA V, HYMN 58. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 28.
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TO THE MARUTS (THE STORM-GODS).
1. I praise1 now the powerful company of these ever-young Maruts, who drive violently along with quick horses; aye, the sovereigns are lords of Amrita (the immortal).
2. The terrible company, the powerful, adorned with quoits on their hands, given to roaring, potent, dispensing treasures, they who are beneficent, infinite in greatness, praise, O poet, these men of great wealth!
3. May your water-carriers come here to-day, all the Maruts who stir up the rain. That fire which has been lighted for you, O Maruts, accept it, O young singers!
4. O worshipful Maruts, you create for man an active king, fashioned by Vibhvan'; from you comes the man who can fight with his fist, and is quick with his arm, from you the man with good horses and valiant heroes.
5. Like the spokes of a wheel, no one is last, like the days they are born on and on, not deficient in might. The very high sons of Prisni are full of fury, the Maruts cling firmly to their own will1.
6. When you have come forth with your speckled deer as horses' on strong-fellied chariots, O Maruts, the waters gush, the forests go asunder';-let Dyu3 (Sky) roar down, the bull of the Dawn.
7. At their approach, even the earth opened wide,
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