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1like bulls, impatient of the yoke, they by their marches make the heavenly stone, the rocky mountain (cloud)? to shake. 5. Arise, for now I call with my hymns! the troop of these Maruts, grown strong together, the manifold, the incomparable, as if calling a drove of bulls. 6. Harness the red mares to the chariot, harness the ruddy horses to the chariots, harness the two bays, ready to drive in the yoke, most vehement to drive in the yoke. 7. And this red stallion too, loudly neighing, has been placed here, beautiful to behold; may it not cause you delay on your marches, O Maruts; spur him forth on your chariots. [32] Zz 338 VEDIC HYMNS. 8. We call towards us the glorious chariot of the Maruts, whereon there stands also Rodasi’, carrying delightful gifts, among the Maruts. 9. I call hither this your host, brilliant on chariots, terrible and glorious; among which she, the wellborn and fortunate, the bounteous lady, is also magnified among the Maruts. NOTES. Vv, 56, 8. 339 NOTES. The same poet and deity, though Agni is invoked in the first, possibly in the second verse also. Metre, 1,2, 4-6, 8, 9 Brthatt; 3, 7 Satobrzhati. None of the verses occurs in SV., VS., AV., TS., MS. Verse 1, Note 1. Here again some interpreters of the Veda take avgi in the sense of paint, war-paint. It may be so, but the more general meaning of colours or ornament seems, as yet, safer. Verse 3. Note 1. The earth is frequently represented as trembling under the fury of the Maruts. Here she is first called mi/Aushmati, a curious compound which, in our verse, may possibly have a more special meaning. As the earth is not only struck down by the storm, but at the same time covered with water and fertilised, she is represented as struck down and staggering, but likewise as rejoicing, ossibly, as drunk. P y Verse 4. Note 1. Vr/tha means pell-mell, confusedly, wildly; see also Geldner, Ved. Stud. p. 115. Note 2. Asm svaryik seems to mean the thunderbolt like vagrad# svaryi# in I, 32,2; 61,6. See also V, 30, 8. In that case we should have to translate, ‘they let the heavenly bolt fall down on the rocky mountain.’ But kyAvayati is never used for the hurling of the thunderbolt, nor is it construed with two accusatives. It always means to shake what is firm, and we have therefore to translate, ‘they shake the heavenly stone (the sky), the rocky mountain (the cloud).’ Parvata and giri often occur together, as in I, 37, 7; VIII, 64, 5. Verse 5. Note 1. Stémaiz may possibly refer to samukshiténam. Verse 8. Note 1. On Rodasi, see before, I, 167, 3. Z2 340 VEDIC HYMNS. MANDALA V, HYMN 57. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 21-22. To THE Maruts (THE STORM-GoDsS). 1. O Rudras, joined by Indra, friends on golden chariots, come hither for our welfare! This prayer from us is acceptable to you like the springs of heaven to a thirsty soul longing for water.
2MANDALA V, HYMN 57. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 21-22. To THE Maruts (THE STORM-GoDsS). 1. O Rudras, joined by Indra, friends on golden chariots, come hither for our welfare! This prayer from us is acceptable to you like the springs of heaven to a thirsty soul longing for water. 2. O you sons of Pvzsni, you are armed with daggers and spears, you are wise, carrying good bows and arrows and quivers, possessed of good horses and chariots. With your good weapons, O Maruts, you go to triumph! 3. You shake? the sky and the mountains (clouds) for wealth to the liberal giver; the forests bend down out of your way from fear*. O sons of Pvzsni, you rouse the earth when you, O terrible ones, have harnessed the spotted deer for triumph ! 4. The Maruts, blazing with the wind, clothed in rain, are as like one another as twins, and well adorned. They have tawny horses, and red horses, they are faultless, endowed with exceeding vigour ; they are in greatness wide as the heaven. 5. Rich in rain-drops, well adorned, bounteous, terrible to behold, of inexhaustible wealth, noble by birth, golden-breasted, these singers of the sky? have obtained their immortal name*. 6. Spears are on your two shoulders, in your arms are placed strength, power, and might. Manly thoughts dwell in your heads, on your chariots are weapons, and every beauty has been laid on your bodies. MANDALA V, HYMN 57. 341 7. O Maruts, you have given us wealth of cows, horses, chariots, and heroes, golden wealth! O men of Rudra, bestow on us great praise, and may I enjoy your divine protection ! 8. Hark, O heroes, O Maruts! Be gracious to us! You who are of great bounty, immortal, righteous, truly listening to us, poets, young, dwelling on mighty mountains ', and grown mighty. 342 VEDIC HYMNS. NOTES. The same poet and deity, Metre, 1-6 Gagati; 7, 8 Trishtubh. None of its verses occurs in SV., VS., AV., TS.; verse 6 in MS. IV, 11, 4. Verse 3. Note 1. Dhf is construed with two accusatives, see RV. III, 45, 4; otherwise vdsu might be connected with dasishe. The third pada is almost literally repeated soon after, V, 60, 2; see note 1 to I, 37, 7. Note 2. Ydmanak bhiy4 may be from fear of your approach. Verse 5. Note 1. In divd# ark&% even Bergaigne allows that arkad may mean singer, not song. Note 2. Nama, name, is here as elsewhere what is meant by the name, therefore immortal being or immortality. Verse 8. Note 1. Br¢hadgiraya# cannot well mean with a powerful voice. The Maruts are called girisht/a, VIII, 94, 12, dwelling on mountains, and like brzhaddiva, brzhadgiri seems to have been intended for dwelling on high mountains. MANDALA V, HYMN 58. 343 MANDALA V, HYMN 58. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 23. To THE Maruts (THE STORM-GoDs). 1. I praise? 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).
3MANDALA V, HYMN 58. 343 MANDALA V, HYMN 58. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 23. To THE Maruts (THE STORM-GoDs). 1. I praise? 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 Przsni are full of fury, the Maruts cling firmly to their own will’. 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 Dyu (Sky) roar down, the bull of the Dawn. 7. At their approach, even the earth opened wide, 344 VEDIC HYMNS. and they placed (sowed) their own! strength (the rain), as a husband the germ. Indeed they have harnessed the winds as horses to the yoke, and the men of Rudra have changed their sweat into rain. 8. Hark, O heroes, O Maruts! Be gracious to us! You who are of great bounty, immortal, righteous, truly listening to us, poets, young, dwelling on mighty mountains, and grown mighty. NOTES. V, 58, 4. 345 NOTES. The same poet and deity. Metre, Trishtubh. None of the verses occurs in SV., VS., AV., TS. Verses 3 and 5 are found in TB. II, 5, 5,3; II, 8, 5,7; MS. IV, 11, 2; IV, 4, 18. Verse 1.
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1like bulls, impatient of the yoke, they by their marches make the heavenly stone, the rocky mountain (cloud)? to shake. 5. Arise, for now I call with my hymns! the troop of these Maruts, grown strong together, the manifold, the incomparable, as if calling a drove of bulls. 6. Harness the red mares to the chariot, harness the ruddy horses to the chariots, harness the two bays, ready to drive in the yoke, most vehement to drive in the yoke. 7. And this red stallion too, loudly neighing, has been placed here, beautiful to behold; may it not cause you delay on your marches, O Maruts; spur him forth on your chariots. [32] Zz 338 VEDIC HYMNS. 8. We call towards us the glorious chariot of the Maruts, whereon there stands also Rodasi’, carrying delightful gifts, among the Maruts. 9. I call hither this your host, brilliant on chariots, terrible and glorious; among which she, the wellborn and fortunate, the bounteous lady, is also magnified among the Maruts. NOTES. Vv, 56, 8. 339 NOTES. The same poet and deity, though Agni is invoked in the first, possibly in the second verse also. Metre, 1,2, 4-6, 8, 9 Brthatt; 3, 7 Satobrzhati. None of the verses occurs in SV., VS., AV., TS., MS. Verse 1, Note 1. Here again some interpreters of the Veda take avgi in the sense of paint, war-paint. It may be so, but the more general meaning of colours or ornament seems, as yet, safer. Verse 3. Note 1. The earth is frequently represented as trembling under the fury of the Maruts. Here she is first called mi/Aushmati, a curious compound which, in our verse, may possibly have a more special meaning. As the earth is not only struck down by the storm, but at the same time covered with water and fertilised, she is represented as struck down and staggering, but likewise as rejoicing, ossibly, as drunk. P y Verse 4. Note 1. Vr/tha means pell-mell, confusedly, wildly; see also Geldner, Ved. Stud. p. 115. Note 2. Asm svaryik seems to mean the thunderbolt like vagrad# svaryi# in I, 32,2; 61,6. See also V, 30, 8. In that case we should have to translate, ‘they let the heavenly bolt fall down on the rocky mountain.’ But kyAvayati is never used for the hurling of the thunderbolt, nor is it construed with two accusatives. It always means to shake what is firm, and we have therefore to translate, ‘they shake the heavenly stone (the sky), the rocky mountain (the cloud).’ Parvata and giri often occur together, as in I, 37, 7; VIII, 64, 5. Verse 5. Note 1. Stémaiz may possibly refer to samukshiténam. Verse 8. Note 1. On Rodasi, see before, I, 167, 3. Z2 340 VEDIC HYMNS. MANDALA V, HYMN 57. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 21-22. To THE Maruts (THE STORM-GoDsS). 1. O Rudras, joined by Indra, friends on golden chariots, come hither for our welfare! This prayer from us is acceptable to you like the springs of heaven to a thirsty soul longing for water.
2MANDALA V, HYMN 57. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 21-22. To THE Maruts (THE STORM-GoDsS). 1. O Rudras, joined by Indra, friends on golden chariots, come hither for our welfare! This prayer from us is acceptable to you like the springs of heaven to a thirsty soul longing for water. 2. O you sons of Pvzsni, you are armed with daggers and spears, you are wise, carrying good bows and arrows and quivers, possessed of good horses and chariots. With your good weapons, O Maruts, you go to triumph! 3. You shake? the sky and the mountains (clouds) for wealth to the liberal giver; the forests bend down out of your way from fear*. O sons of Pvzsni, you rouse the earth when you, O terrible ones, have harnessed the spotted deer for triumph ! 4. The Maruts, blazing with the wind, clothed in rain, are as like one another as twins, and well adorned. They have tawny horses, and red horses, they are faultless, endowed with exceeding vigour ; they are in greatness wide as the heaven. 5. Rich in rain-drops, well adorned, bounteous, terrible to behold, of inexhaustible wealth, noble by birth, golden-breasted, these singers of the sky? have obtained their immortal name*. 6. Spears are on your two shoulders, in your arms are placed strength, power, and might. Manly thoughts dwell in your heads, on your chariots are weapons, and every beauty has been laid on your bodies. MANDALA V, HYMN 57. 341 7. O Maruts, you have given us wealth of cows, horses, chariots, and heroes, golden wealth! O men of Rudra, bestow on us great praise, and may I enjoy your divine protection ! 8. Hark, O heroes, O Maruts! Be gracious to us! You who are of great bounty, immortal, righteous, truly listening to us, poets, young, dwelling on mighty mountains ', and grown mighty. 342 VEDIC HYMNS. NOTES. The same poet and deity, Metre, 1-6 Gagati; 7, 8 Trishtubh. None of its verses occurs in SV., VS., AV., TS.; verse 6 in MS. IV, 11, 4. Verse 3. Note 1. Dhf is construed with two accusatives, see RV. III, 45, 4; otherwise vdsu might be connected with dasishe. The third pada is almost literally repeated soon after, V, 60, 2; see note 1 to I, 37, 7. Note 2. Ydmanak bhiy4 may be from fear of your approach. Verse 5. Note 1. In divd# ark&% even Bergaigne allows that arkad may mean singer, not song. Note 2. Nama, name, is here as elsewhere what is meant by the name, therefore immortal being or immortality. Verse 8. Note 1. Br¢hadgiraya# cannot well mean with a powerful voice. The Maruts are called girisht/a, VIII, 94, 12, dwelling on mountains, and like brzhaddiva, brzhadgiri seems to have been intended for dwelling on high mountains. MANDALA V, HYMN 58. 343 MANDALA V, HYMN 58. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 23. To THE Maruts (THE STORM-GoDs). 1. I praise? 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).
3MANDALA V, HYMN 58. 343 MANDALA V, HYMN 58. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 23. To THE Maruts (THE STORM-GoDs). 1. I praise? 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 Przsni are full of fury, the Maruts cling firmly to their own will’. 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 Dyu (Sky) roar down, the bull of the Dawn. 7. At their approach, even the earth opened wide, 344 VEDIC HYMNS. and they placed (sowed) their own! strength (the rain), as a husband the germ. Indeed they have harnessed the winds as horses to the yoke, and the men of Rudra have changed their sweat into rain. 8. Hark, O heroes, O Maruts! Be gracious to us! You who are of great bounty, immortal, righteous, truly listening to us, poets, young, dwelling on mighty mountains, and grown mighty. NOTES. V, 58, 4. 345 NOTES. The same poet and deity. Metre, Trishtubh. None of the verses occurs in SV., VS., AV., TS. Verses 3 and 5 are found in TB. II, 5, 5,3; II, 8, 5,7; MS. IV, 11, 2; IV, 4, 18. Verse 1.
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