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Post by Anne Terri on Oct 25, 2011 11:12:04 GMT 1
RIGVEDA - BOOK 8- HYMN LXXXIII. Maruts.
1. THE Cow, the famous Mother of the wealthy Maruts, pours her milk: Both horses of the cars are yoked,— 2 She in whose bosom all the Gods, and Sun and Moon for men to see, Maintain their everlasting Laws. 3 This all the pious sing to us, and sacred poets evermore: The Maruts to the Soma-draught 4 Here is the Soma ready pressed of this the Maruts drink, of this Self-luminous the Aśvins drink. 5 Of this, moreover, purified, set in three places, procreant, Drink Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman. 6 And Indra, like the Herald Priest, desirous of the milky juice, At early morn will quaff thereof. 7 When have the Princes gleamed and shone through waters as through troops of foes'? When hasten they whose might ispure? 8 What favour do I claim this day of you great Deities, you who are Wondrously splendid in yourselves? 9 1 call, to drink the Soma, those Maruts who spread all realms of earth And luminous regions of the sky. 10 You, even such, pure in your might, you, O ye Maruts, I invoke From heaven to drink this Somajuice. 11 The Maruts, those who have sustained and propped the heavens and earth apart, I call to drink this Soma juice. 12 That vigorous band of Maruts that abidetb in the mountains, I Invoke to drink this Soma juice.
Bibliography: Rigveda, translated by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, (1896)
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