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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA VIII, HYMN 7. ASHTAKA V, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 18–24.
To the Maruts (THE STORM-GODS).' 1. When the sage has poured out the threefold 1 draught to you, O Maruts, then you shine forth in the mountains (clouds).
2. Aye, when, O bright Maruts, growing in strength, you have seen your way, then the mountains (clouds) have gone down?
3. The sons of Prisni, the bulls, have risen together with the winds, they have drawn forth the swelling draught.
4. The Maruts sow the mist, they shake the mountains (clouds), when they go their way with the winds,
5. When the mountain bent down before your march, the rivers before your rule, before your great power (blast).
6. We invoke you by night for our protection, you by day, you while the sacrifice proceeds.
7. And they rise up on their courses, the beautiful, of reddish hue!, the bulls, above the ridge of the sky.
8. With might they send forth a ray of light, that the sun may have a path to walk? : they have spread far and wide with their lights.
9. Accept, O Maruts, this my speech, this hymn of praise, O Ribhukshans ', this my call.
10. The Prisnis 1 (the clouds) yielded three lakes (from their udders) as mead for the wielder of the thunderbolt (Indra), the well, the water-skin, the watering-pot
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