
Hymns to Maruts from the Rig-Veda - Book I

HYMN XIX. Agni, Maruts.
1 To this fair sacrifice to drink the milky draught thou
art invoked:
O Agni, with the Maruts come.
2 No mortal
man, no God exceeds thy mental power, O Mighty one -
O Agni,
with the Maruts come
3 All Gods devoid of guile, who know
the mighty region of mid-air:
O Agni, with those Maruts come.
4 The terrible, who sing their song, not to be overcome by might:
O Agni, with those Maruts come.
5 Brilliant, and awful in
their form, mighty, devourers of their foes':
O Agni, with
those Maruts come.
6 Who sit as Deities in heaven, above
the sky-vault's luminous sphere:
O Agni, with those Maruts
come.
7 Who scatter clouds about the sky, away over the billowy
sea:
O Agni, with those Maruts come.
8 Who with their
bright beams spread them forth over the ocean in their might
O Agni, with those Maruts come.
9 For thee, to be thine early
draught, I pour the Soma-mingled meath:
O Agni, with the
Maruts come.
HYMN XXXVII. Maruts.
1 SING forth, O Kanvas, to your band of Maruts unassailable,
Sporting, resplendent on their car
2 They who, self-luminous,
were born together, with the spotted deer,
Spears, swords,
and glittering ornaments.
3 One hears, as though 'twere close
at hand, the cracking of the whips they hold
They gather
glory on their way.
4 Now sing ye forth the God-given hymn
to your exultant Marut host,
The fiercely-vigorous, the strong.
5 Praise ye the Bull among the cows; for 'tis the Maruts' sportive
band:
It strengthened as it drank the rain.
6 Who is your
mightiest, Heroes, when, O shakers of the earth and heaven,
Ye shake them like a garment's hem?
7 At your approach man
holds him down before the fury of your wrath:
The rugged-jointed
mountain yields.
8 They at whose racings forth the earth,
like an age-weakened lord of men,
Trembles in terror on their
ways.
9 Strong is their birth: vigour have they to issue
from their Mother; strength,
Yea, even twice enough, is theirs.
10 And these, the Sons, the Singers, in their racings have enlarged
the bounds,
So that the kine must walk knee-deep.
11 Before
them, on the ways they go, they drop this offspring of the cloud,
Long, broad, and inexhaustible.
12 O Maruts, as your strength
is great, so have ye cast men down on earth,
So have ye made
the mountains fall.
13 The while the Maruts pass along, they
talk together on the way:
Doth any hear them as they speak?
14 Come quick with swift steeds, for ye have worshippers among
Kanva's sons
May you rejoice among them well.
15 All is
prepared for your delight. We are their servants evermore,
To live as long as life may last.
HYMN XXXVIII. Maruts.
I WHAT now? When will ye take us by both hands, as a dear
sire his son,
Gods, for whom sacred grass is clipped?
2 Now whither? To what goal of yours go ye in heaven, and not
on earth?
Where do your cows disport themselves?
3 Where
are your newest favours shown? Where, Maruts, your prosperity?
Where all your high felicities?
4 If, O ye Maruts, ye the
Sons whom Prsni bore, were mortal, and
Immortal he who sings
your praise.
5 Then never were your praiser loathed like
a wild beast in pasture-land,
Nor should he go on Yama's
path.
6 Let not destructive plague on plague hard to be conquered,
strike its down:
Let each, with drought, depart from us.
7 Truly, they the fierce and mighty Sons of Rudra send their
windless
Rain e'en on the desert places.
8 Like a cow
the lightning lows and follows, motherlike, her youngling,
When their rain-flood hath been loosened.
9 When they inundate
the earth they spread forth darkness e'en in day time,
With
the water-laden rain-cloud.
10 O Maruts, at your voice's
sound this earthly habitation shakes,
And each man reels
who dwells therein.
11 O Maruts, with your strong-hoofed
steeds, unhindered in their courses, haste
Along the bright
embanked streams.
12 Firm be the fellies of your wheels,
steady your horses and your cars,
And may your reins be fashioned
well.
13 Invite thou hither with this song, for praise, Agni
the Lord of Prayer,
Him who is fair as Mitra is.
14 Form
in thy mouth the hymn of praise expand thee like, a rainy cloud
Sing forth the measured eulogy.
15 Sing glory to the Marut
host, praiseworthy, tuneful, vigorous:
Here let the Strong
Ones dwell with us.
HYMN XXXIX Maruts.
1 WHEN thus, like flame, from far away, Maruts, ye cast your
measure forth,
To whom go Ye, to whom, O shakers of the earth,
moved by whose wisdom, whose design?
2 Strong let your weapons
be to drive away your foes, firm for resistance let them be.
Yea, passing glorious must be your warrior might, not as a guileful
mortal's strength.
3 When what is strong ye overthrow, and
whirl about each ponderous thing,
Heroes, your course is
through the forest trees of earth, and through the fissures
of the rocks.
4 Consumers of your foes, no enemy of yours
is found in heaven or on the earth:
Ye Rudras, may the strength,
held in this bond, be yours, to bid defiance even now.
5
They make the mountains rock and reel, they rend the forest-kings
apart.
onward, ye Maruts, drive, like creatures drunk with
wine, ye, Gods with all your company.
6 Ye to your chariot
have yoked the spotted deer: a red deer, as a leader, draws.
Even the Earth herself listened as ye came near, and men were
sorely terrified.
7 O Rudras, quickly we desire your succour
for this work of ours.
Come to us with your aid as in the
days of old, so now for frightened Kanva's sake.
8 Should
any monstrous foe, O Maruts, sent by you or sent by mortals
threaten us,
Tear ye him from us with your power and with
your might, and with the succours that are yours.
9 For ye,
the worshipful and wise, have guarded Kanva perfectly.
O
Maruts, come to us with full protecting help, as lightning flashes
seek the rain.
10 Whole strength have ye, O Bounteous Ones;
perfect, earth-shakers, is your might.
Maruts, against the
poet's wrathful enemy send ye an enemy like a dart.
HYMN LXIV. Maruts.
1. BRING for the manly host, wise and majestical, O Nodhas,
for the Maruts bring thou a pure gift.
I deck my songs as
one deft-handed, wise in mind prepares the water that hath power
in solemn rites.
2 They spring to birth, the lofty Ones,
the Bulls of Heaven, divine, the youths of Rudra, free from
spot and stain;
The purifiers, shining brightly even as suns,
awful of form like giants, scattering rain-drops down.
3
Young Rudras, demon-slayers, never growing old, they have waxed,
even as mountains, irresistible.
They make all beings tremble
with their mighty strength, even the very strongest, both of
earth and heaven.
4 With glittering ornaments they deck them
forth for show; for beauty on their breasts they bind their
chains of gold.
The lances on their shoulders pound to pieces;
they were born together, of themselves, the Men of Heaven.
5 Loud roarers, giving strength, devourers of the foe, they
make the winds, they make the lightnings with their powers.
The restless shakers drain the udders of the sky, and ever wandering
round fill the earth full with milk.
6 The bounteous Maruts
with the fatness dropping milk fill full the waters which avail
in solenm rites.
They lead, as 'twere, the Strong Horse forth,
that it may rain: they milk the thundering, the never-failing
spring.
7 Mighty, with wondrous power and marvellously bright,
selfstrong like mountains, ye glide swiftly on your way.
Like the wild elephants ye eat the forests up when ye assume
your strength among the bright red flames.
8 Exceeding wise
they roar like lions mightily, they, all-possessing, are beauteous
as antelopes;
Stirring the darkness with lances and spotted
deer, combined as priests, with serpents' fury through their
might.
9 Heroes who march in companies, befriending man,
with serpents' ire through strength, ye greet the earth and
heaven.
Upon the seats, O Maruts, of your chariots, upon
the cars stands lightning visible as light.
10 Lords of all
riches, dwelling in the home of wealth, endowed with mighty
vigour, singers loud of voice,
Heroes, of powers infinite,
armed with strong men's rings, the archers, they have laid the
arrow on their arms.
11 They who with golden fellies make
the rain increase drive forward the big clouds like wanderers
on the way.
Self-moving, brisk, unwearied, they o'erthrow
the firm; the Maruts with bright lances make all things to reel.
12 The progeny of Rudra we invoke with prayer, the brisk, the
bright, the worshipful, the active Ones
To the strong band
of Maruts cleave for happiness, the chasers of the sky, impetuous,
vigorous.
13 Maruts, the man whom ye have guarded with your
help, he verily in strength surpasseth all mankind.
Spoil
with his steeds he gaineth, treasure with his men; he winneth
honourable strength and prospereth.
14 O Maruts, to the worshippers
give glorious strength invincible in battle, brilliant, bringing
wealth,
Praiseworthy, known to all men. May we foster well,
during a hundred winters, son and progeny.
15 Will ye then,
O ye Maruts, grant us riches, durable, rich in men, defying
onslaught.
A hundred, thousandfold, ever increasing? May
he, enriched with prayer, come soon and early.
HYMN LXXXV. Maruts.
1. THEY who are glancing forth, like women, on their way,
doers of mighty deeds, swift racers, Rudra's Sons,
The Maruts
have made heaven and earth increase and grow: in sacrifices
they delight, the strong and wild.
2 Grown to their perfect
strength greatness have they attained; the Rudras have established
their abode in heaven.
Singing their song of praise and generating
might, they have put glory on, the Sons whom Prani bare.
3 When, Children of the Cow, they shine in bright attire, and
on their fair limbs lay their golden ornaments,
They drive
away each adversary from their path, and, following their traces,
fatness floweth down,
4 When, mighty Warriors, ye who glitter
with your spears, o'erthrowing with your strength e'en what
is ne'er o'erthrown,
When, O ye Maruts, ye the host that
send the rain, had harnessed to your cars the thought-fleet
spotted deer.
5 When ye have harnessed to your cars the spotted
deer, urging the thunderbolt, O Maruts, to the fray,
Forth
rush the torrents of the dark red stormy cloud, and moisten,
like a skin, the earth with water-floods.
6 Let your swift-gliding
coursers bear you hitherward with their fleet pinions. Come
ye forward with your arms.
Sit on the grass; a wide scat
hath been made for you: delight yourselves, O Maruts, in the
pleasant food.
7 Strong in their native strength to greatness
have they grown, stepped to the firmament and made their dwelling
wide.
When Visnu saved the Soma bringing wild delight, the
Maruts sate like birds on their dear holy grass.
8 In sooth
like heroes fain for fight they rush about, like combatants
fame-seeking have they striven in war.
Before the Maruts
every creature is afraid: the men are like to Kings, terrible
to behold.
9 When Tyastar deft of hand had turned the thunderbolt,
golden, with thousand edges, fashioned more skilfully,
Indra
received it to perform heroic deeds. Vrtra he slew, and forced
the flood of water forth.
10 They with their vigorous strength
pushed the well up on high, and clove the cloud in twain though
it was passing strong.
The Maruts, bounteous Givers, sending
forth their voice, in the wild joy of Soma wrought their glorious
deeds.
11 They drave the cloud transverse directed hitherward,
and poured the fountain forth for thirsting Gotama.
Shining
with varied light they come to him with help: they with their
might fulfilled the longing of the sage.
12 The shelters
which ye have for him who lauds you, bestow them threefold on
the man who offers.
Extend the same boons unto us, ye Maruts.
Give us, O Heroes, wealth with noble offipring.
HYMN LXXXVI. Maruts.
1. THE best of guardians hath that man within whose dwelling
place ye drink,
O Maruts, giants of the sky.
2 Honoured
with sacrifice or with the worship of the sages' hymns,
O
Maruts, listen to the call.
3 Yea, the strong man to whom
ye have vouchsafed to give a sage, shall move
Into a stable
rich in kine.
4 Upon this hero's sacred grass Soma is poured
in daily rites:
Praise and delight are sung aloud.
5 Let
the strong Maruts hear him, him surpassing all men: strength
be his
That reaches even to the Sun.
6 For, through the
swift Gods' loving help, in many an autumn, Maruts, we
Have
offered up our sacrifice.
7 Fortunate shall that mortal be,
O Maruts most adorable,
Whose offerings ye bear away.
8 O Heroes truly strong, ye know the toil of him who sings your
praise,
The heart's desire of him who loves.
9 O ye of
true strength, make this thing manifest by your greatness -
strike
The demon with your thunderbolt.
10 Conceal the
horrid darkness, drive far from us each devouring fiend.
Create the light for which we long.
HYMN LXXXVII Maruts.
1. LOUD Singers, never humbled, active, full of strength,
immovable, impetuous, manliest, best-beloved,
They have displayed
themselves with glittering ornaments, a few in number only,
like the heavens with stars.
2 When, Maruts, on the steeps
ye pile the moving cloud, ye are like birds on whatsoever path
it be.
Clouds everywhere shed forth the rain upon your cars.
Drop fatness, honey-hued, for him who sings your praise.
3 Earth at their racings trembles as if weak and worn, when
on their ways they yoke their cars for victory.
They, sportive,
loudly roaring, armed with glittering spears, shakers of all,
themselves admire their mightiness.
4 Self-moving is that
youthful band, with spotted steeds; thus it hath lordly sway,
endued with power and might.
Truthful art thou, and blameless,
searcher out of sin: so thou, Strong Host, wilt be protector
of this prayer.
5 We speak by our descent from our primeval
Sire; our tongue, when we behold the Soma, stirs itself.
When, shouting, they had joined Indra in toil of fight, then
only they obtained their sacrificial names.
6 Splendours
they gained for glory, they who wear bright rings; rays they
obtained, and men to celebrate their praise.
Armed with their
swords, impetuous and fearing naught, they have possessed the
Maruts' own beloved home.
HYMN LXXXVIII. Maruts.
1. COME hither, Maruts, on your lightning laden cars, sounding
with sweet songs, armed with lances, winged with steeds.
Fly unto us with noblest food, like birds, O ye of mighty power.
2 With their red-hued or, haply, tawny coursers which speed
their chariots on, they come for glory.
Brilliant like gold
is he who holds the thunder. Earth have they smitten with the
chariot's felly.
3 For beauty ye have swords upon your bodies.
As they stir woods so may they stir our spirits.
For your
sake, O ye Maruts very mighty and well-born, have they set the
stone, in motion.
4 The days went round you and came back
O yearners, back, to this prayer and to this solemn worship.
The Gotamas making their prayer with singing have pushed the
well's lid up to drink the water.
5 No hymn way ever known
like this aforetime which Gotama sang forth for you, O Maruts,
What time upon your golden wheels he saw you, wild boars rushing
about with tusks of iron.
6 To you this freshening draught
of Soma rusheth, O Maruts, like the voice of one who prayeth.
It rusheth freely from our hands as these. libations wont to
flow.
HYMN CLXV. Indra. Maruts.
1. WITH what bright beauty are the Maruts jointly invested,
peers in age, who dwell together?
From what place have they
come? With what intention? Sing they their strength through
love of wealth, these Heroes?
2 Whose prayers have they,
the Youthful Ones, accepted? Who to his sacrifice hath turned
the Maruts?
We will delay them on their journey sweeping-with
what high spirit!-through the air like eagles.
3 Whence comest
thou alone, thou who art mighty, Indra, Lord of the Brave? What
is thy purpose?
Thou greetest us when meeting us the Bright
Ones. Lord of Bay Steeds, say what thou hast against us.
4 Mine are devotions, hymns; sweet are libations. Strength stirs,
and hurled forth is my bolt of thunder.
They call for me,
their lauds are longing for me. These my Bay Steeds bear me
to these oblations.
5 Therefore together with our strong
companions, having adorned our bodies, now we harness,
Our
spotted deer with might, for thou, O Indra, hast learnt and
understood our Godlike nature.
6 Where was that nature then
of yours, O Maruts, that ye charged me alone to slay the Dragon?
For I in truth am fierce and strong and mighty. I bent away
from every foeman's weapons.
7 Yea, much hast thou achieved
with us for comrades, with manly valour like thine own, thou
Hero.
Much may we too achieve, O mightiest Indra, with our
great power, we Maruts, when we will it.
8 Vrtra I slew by
mine own strength, O Maruts, having waxed mighty in mine indignation.
I with the thunder in my hand created for man these lucid softly
flowing waters.
9 Nothing, O Maghavan, stands firm before
thee; among the Gods not one is found
thine equal.
None
born or springing into life comes nigh thee. Do what thou hast
to do, exceeding mighty?
10 Mine only be transcendent power,
whatever I, daring in my spirit, may accomplish.
For I am
known as terrible, O Maruts I, Indra, am the Lord of what I
ruined.
11 Now, O ye Maruts, hath your praise rejoiced me,
the glorious hymn which ye have made me, Heroes!
For me,
for Indra, champion strong in battle, for me, yourselves, as
lovers for a lover.
12 Here, truly, they send forth their
sheen to meet me, wearing their blameless glory and their vigour.
When I have seen you, Matuts, in gay splendour, ye have delighted
me, so now delight me.
13 Who here hath magnified you, O
ye Maruts? speed forward, O ye lovers, to your lovers.
Ye
Radiant Ones, assisting their devotions, of these my holy rites
he ye regardful.
14 To this hath Minya's wisdom brought us,
so as to aid, as aids the poet him who worships.
Bring hither
quick! On to the sage, ye Maruts! These prayers for you the
singer hath recited.
15 May this your praise, may this your
song, O Maruts, sung by the poet, Mana's son, Mandarya,
Bring
offspring for ourselves with food to feed us. May we find strengthening
food in full abundance!
HYMN CLXVI. Maruts.
1. Now let us publish, for the vigorous company the herald
of the Strong One, their primeval might.
With fire upon your
way, O Maruts loud of voice, with battle, Mighty Ones, achieve
your deeds of strength.
2 Bringing the pleasant mcath as
'twere their own dear son, they sport in sportive wise gay at
their gatherings.
The Rudras come with succour to the worshipper;
self-strong they fail not him who offers sacrifice.
3 To
whomsoever, bringer of oblations, they immortal guardians, have
given plenteous wealth,
For him, like loving friends, the
Maruts bringing bliss bedew the regions round with milk abundantly.
4 Ye who with mighty powers have stirred the regions up, your
coursers have sped forth directed by themselves.
All creatures
of the earth, all dwellings are afraid, for brilliant is your
coming with your spears advanced.
5 When they in dazzling
rush have made the mountains roar, and shaken heaven's high
back in their heroic strength,
Each sovran of the forest
fears as ye drive near, aid the shrubs fly before you swift
as whirling wheels.
6 Terrible Maruts, ye with ne'er-diminished
host, with grcat benevolence fulfil our heart's desire.
Where'er
your lightning bites armed with its gory teeth it crunches up
the cattle like a well-aimed dart.
7 Givers of during gifts
whose bounties never fail, free from ill-will, at sacrifices
glorified,
They sing their song aloud that they may drink
sweet juice: well do they know the Hero's first heroic deeds.
8 With castles hundredfold, O Maruts, guard ye well the man
whom ye have loved from ruin and from sin,-
The man whom
ye the fierce, the Mighty ones who roar, preserve from calumny
by cherishing his seed.
9 O Maruts, in your cars are all
things that are good: great powers are set as 'twere in rivalry
therein.
Rings are upon your shoulders when ye journey forth:
your axle turns together both the chariot wheels.
10 Held
in your manly arms are many goodly things, gold chains are on
your chests, and glistering ornaments,
Deer-skins are on
their shoulders, on their fellies knives: they spread their
glory out as birds spread out their wings.
11 Mighty in mightiness,
pervading, passing strong, visible from afar as 'twere with
stars of heaven,
Lovely with pleasant tongues, sweet singers
with their mouths, the Maruts, joined with Indra, shout forth
all around.
12 This is your majesty, ye Maruts nobly born,
far as the sway of Adid your bounty spreads.
Even Indra by
desertion never disannuls the boon bestowed by you upon the
pious man.
13 This is your kinship, Maruts, that, Immortals,
ye were oft in olden time regardful of our call,
Having vouchsafed
to man a hearing through this prayer, by wondrous deeds the
Heroes have displayed their might.
14 That, O ye Maruts,
we may long time flourish through your abundant riches, O swift
movers,
And that our men may spread in the encampment, let
me complete the rite with these oblations.
15 May this your
laud, may this your song, O Maruts, sung by the poet, Mana's
son, Mandarya,
Bring offspring for ourselves with food to
feed us. May we find strengthening food in full abundance.
HYMN CLXVII. Indra. Maruts.
1. A THOUSAND are thy helps for us, O Indra: a thousand,
Lord of Bays, thy choice refreshments.
Wealth of a thousand
sorts hast thou to cheer us: may precious goods come nigh to
us in thousands.
2 May the most sapient Maruts, with protection,
with best boons brought from lofty heaven, approach us,
Now
when their team of the most noble horses speeds even on the
sea's extremest limit.
3 Close to them clings one moving
in seclusion, like a man's wife, like a spear carried rearward,
Well grasped, bright, decked with gold there is Vak also, like
to a courtly, eloquent dame, among them.
4 Far off the brilliant,
never-weary Maruts cling to the young Maid as a joint possession.
The fierce Gods drave not Rodasi before them, but wished for
her to grow their friend and fellow.
5 When chose immortal
Rodasi to follow- she with loose tresses and heroic spirit-
She climbed her servant's chariot, she like Surya with cloud-like
motion and refulgent aspect.
6 Upon their car the young men
set the Maiden wedded to glory, mighty in assemblies,
When
your song, Maruts, rose, and, with oblation, the Soma-pourer
sang his hymn in worship.
7 I will declare the greatness
of these Maruts, their real greatness, worthy to be lauded,
How, with them, she though firm, strong-minded, haughty, travels
to women happy in their fortune.
8 Mitra and Varuna they
guard from censure: Aryaman too, discovers worthless sinners
Firm things are overthrown that ne'er were shaken: he prospers,
Maruts, who gives choice oblations.
9 None of us, Maruts,
near or at a distance, hath ever reached the limit of your vigour.
They in courageous might still waxing boldly have compassed
round their foemen like an ocean.
10 May we this day be dearest
friends of Indra, and let us call on him in fight to-morrow.
So were we erst. New might attend us daily! So be with us! Rbhuksan
of the Heroes!
11 May this your laud, may this your song,
O Maruts, sung by the poet, Mana's
son, Mandarya,
Bring
offspring for ourselves with. food to feed us. May we find strengthening
food in full abundance.
HYMN CLXVIII. Maruts.
1. SWIFT gain is his who hath you near at every rite: ye
welcome every song of himwho serves the Gods.
So may I turn
you hither with fair hymns of praise to give great succour for
the weal of both the worlds.
2 Surrounding, as it were, self-born,
self-powerful, they spring to life the shakers-down of food
and light;
Like as the countess undulations of the floods,
worthy of praise when near, like bullocks and like kine.
3 They who, like Somas with their well-grown stalks pressed
out, imbibed within the heart, dwell there in friendly wise.
Upon their shoulders rests as 'twere a warrior's spear and in
their hand they hold a dagger and a ring.
4 Self-yoked they
have descended lightly from the sky. With your own lash, Immortals,
urge yourselve's to speed.
Unstained by dust the Maruts,
mighty in their strength, have cast down e'en firm things, armed
with their shining spears.
5 Who among you, O Maruts armed
with lightning-spears, moveth you by himself, as with the tongue
his jaws?
Ye rush from heaven's floor as though ye sought
for food, on many errands like the Sun's diurnal Steed.
6
Say where, then, is this mighty region's farthest bound, where,
Maruts, is the lowest depth that ye have reached,
When ye
cast down like chaff the firmly stablished pile, and from the
mountain send the glittering water-flood?
7 Your winning
is with strength, dazzling, with heavenly light, with fruit
mature, O Maruts, fall of plenteousness.
Auspicious is your
gift like a free giver's meed, victorious, spreading far, as
of immortal Gods.
8 The rivers roar before your chariot fellies
when they are uttering the voice of rain-clouds.
The lightnings
laugh upon the earth beneath them, what time the Maruts scatter
forth their fatness.
9 Prani brought forth, to fight the
mighty battle, the glittering army of the restless Maruts.
Nurtured together they begat the monster, and then looked round
them for the food that strengthens.
10 May this your laud,
may this your song O Maruts, sung by the poet Mana's son,
Mandarya,
Bring offspring for ourselves with food to feed
us. May we find strengthening food in full abundance.
HYMN CLXX. Indra. Maruts.
1. NAUGHT is to-day, to-morrow naught. Who comprehends the
mystery?
We must address ourselves unto another's thought,
and lost is then the hope we formed.
2 The Maruts are thy
brothers. Why, O Indra, wouldst thou take our lives?
Agree
with them in friendly wise, and do not slay us in the fight.
3 Agastya, brother, why dost thou neglect us, thou who art our
friend?
We know the nature of thy mind. Verity thou wilt
give us naught.
4 Let them prepare the altar, let them kindle
fire in front: we two
Here will spread sacrifice for thee,
that the Immortal may observe.
5 Thou, Lord of Wealth, art
Master of all treasures, thou, Lord of friends, art thy
friends'
best supporter.
O Indra, speak thou kindly with the Maruts,
and taste oblations in their proper season.
HYMN CLXXI. Maruts.
1. To you I come with this mine adoration, and with a hymn
I crave the Strong Ones' favour
A hymn that truly makes you
joyful, Maruts. Suppress your anger and unyoke your horses.
2 Maruts, to you this laud with prayer and worship, formed in
the mind and heart, ye Gods, is offered.
Come ye to us, rejoicing
in your spirit, for ye are they who make our prayer effective.
3 The Maruts, praised by us, shall show us favour; Maghavan,
lauded, shall be most propitious.
Maruts,, may all our days
that are to follow be very pleasant, lovely and triumphant.
4 I fled in terrror from this mighty Indra, my body trembling
in alarm, O Maruts.
Oblations meant for you had been made
ready; these have we set aside: for this forgive us.
5 By
whom the Manas recognize the day-springs, by whose strength
at the dawn of endless mornings,
Give us, thou Mighty, glory
with Maruts. fierce with the fierce, the Strong who givest triumph.
6 Do thou, O Indra, guard the conquering Heroes, and rid thee
of thy wrath against the Maruts,
With them, the wise, victorious
and bestowing. May we find strengthening food in full abundance.
HYMN CLXXII. Maruts.
1. WONDERFUL let your coming be, wondrous with help, ye Bounteous
Ones,
Maruts, who gleam as serpents gleam.
2 Far be from
us, O Maruts, ye free givers, your impetuous shaft;
Far from
us be the stone ye hurl.
3 O Bounteous Givers, touch ye not,
O Maruts, Trnskanda's folk;
Lift ye us up that we may live.
Suggestions for Further Reading
- The Rig Veda translation by Griffith, Introduction
- Hymns of the Sama veda translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith
- Yajur Veda: The Veda Of The Black Yajus School
- Hymns Of The Atharva-Veda
- Anugita English Translation
- THE Sanatsugâtîya, A Spiritual Dialogue
- Dharmashastras, the Sacred Law Books of Hindus
- The Hindu Dharmashastras, Subject Index
- The Grihya Sutras, The Vedic Domestic Ritual Texts
- The Sankhya Sutras of Kapila, Index page
- Translation of Upanishads by Swami Paramananda, Index
- A History Of Indian Philosophy - Chapter Index
- The Upanishads translated by Max Muller
- Vedic Reader for Students
- The Bhagavad-gita in a nutshell
- Essays On Dharma
- Esoteric Mystic Hinduism
- Introduction to Hinduism
- Hindu Way of Life
- Essays On Karma
- Hindu Rites and Rituals
- The Origin of The Sanskrit Language
- Symbolism in Hinduism
- Essays on The Upanishads
- Concepts of Hinduism
- Essays on Atman
- Hindu Festivals
- Spiritual Practice
- Right Living
- Yoga of Sorrow
- Happiness
- Mental Health
- Concepts of Buddhism
- General Essays
Source: An English translation of the Vedas by Ralph T.H. Griffith, 1896.