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MANDALA V, HYMN 55.
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MANDALA V, HYMN 55. ASHTAKA IV, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 17–18.
TO THE Maruts (THE STORM-GODS). 1. The chasingMaruts with gleaming spears, the golden-breasted, have gained great strength, they move along on quick well-broken horses ;when they went in triumph, the chariots followed.
2. You have yourselves, you know, acquired power ; you shine bright and wide, you great ones. They have even measured the sky with their strength ;-when they went in triumph, the chariots followed.
3. The strong heroes, born together, and nourished together, have further grown to real beauty. They shine brilliantly like the rays of the sun ;when they went in triumph, the chariots followed.
4. Your greatness, O Maruts, is to be honoured, it is to be yearned for like the sight of the sun. Place us also in immortality ;-when they went in triumph, the chariots followed.
5. O Maruts, you raise the rain from the sea, and rain it down, O yeomen! Your milch-cows, O destroyers, are never destroyed ;-when they went in triumph, the chariots followed.
6. When you have joined the deer as horses to the shafts, and have clothed yourselves in golden garments, then, O Maruts, you scatter all enemies;when they went in triumph, the chariots followed.
7. Not mountains, not rivers have kept you back, wherever you see, O Maruts, there you go. You
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