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1. WITH gleaming lances, with their breasts
adorned with gold, the Maruts, rushing onward, hold high power of life.
They hasten with swift steeds easy to be controlled. Their
cars moved onward as they went to victory.
2 Ye, as ye wist, have gained of your own
selves your power: high, O ye Mighty Ones, and wide ye shine abroad.
They with their strength have even measured out the sky.
Their cars moved onward as they went to victory.
3 Strong, born together, they together have
waxed great: the Heroes more and more have grown to majesty
Resplendent as the Sun's beams in their light are they.
Their cars moved onward as they went to victory.
4 Maruts, your mightiness deserves to be
adored, sight to be longed for like the shining of the Sun.
So lead us with your aid to immortality.
Their cars moved onward as they went to victory.
5 O Maruts, from the Ocean ye uplift the
rain, and fraught with vaporous moisture pour the torrents down.
Never, ye Wonder-Workers, are your Milch-kine dry. Their
cars moved onward as they went to victory.
6 When to your car-poles ye have yoked your
spotted deer to be your steeds, and put your golden mantles on,
O Maruts, ye disperse all enemies abroad. Their cars moved
onward as they went to victory.
7 Neither the mountains nor the rivers keep
you back: whither ye have resolved thither ye, Maruts, go.
Ye compass round about even the heaven and earth. Their cars
moved onward as they went to victory.
Whate'er is ancient, Maruts, what of recent time, whate'er
is spoken, Vasus, what is chanted forth,
They who take cognizance of all of this are ye. Their cars
moved onward as they went to victory.
9 Be gracious unto us, ye Maruts, slay us
not extend ye unto us shelter of many a sort.
Pay due regard unto our friendship and our praise. Their
cars moved onward as they went to victory.
10 O Maruts, lead us on to higher fortune
deliver us, when lauded, from afflictions.
Accept, ye Holy Ones, the gifts we bring you. May we be
masters of abundant riches.
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