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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA V, HYMN 61. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYÅYA 3, VARGA 26-29.
TO THE Maruts (THE STORM-GODS). 1. Who are you, O men, the very best, who have approached one by one, from the furthest distance ??
2. Where are your horses, where the bridles ? How could you, how did you come ?—the seat on the back, the rein in the nostrils ?
3. Their goad is on the croup, the heroes stretched their legs apart? ..
4. Move along, heroes, young men, the sons of an excellent mother', so that you may warm yourselves at our fire
5. (1.) May the woman, if she stretched out her arm' as a rest for the hero, praised by Syâvâsva”, gain cattle consisting of horses, cows, and a hundred sheep.
6. (2.) Many a woman is even more often kindlier than a godless and miserly man,
7. (3.) A woman who finds out the weak, the thirsty, the needy, and is mindful of the gods.
8. (4.) Even though many an unpraiseworthy miser (Pani) is called a man, she is worth as much in weregild.
9. (5.) Also the young woman joyfully whispered to me, to Syâva, the road, -and the two bays went straight to Purumilha 1, the wise, the far-famed,
10. (6.) Who gave me a hundred cows, like Vaidadasvi, like Taranta, in magnificence.
11. (1.) The Maruts, who drive on their quick horses, drinking the delightful mead, have gained glory here;
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