HYMN LXXXIII. Maruts. – Rig Veda – Book 8
देवानामिदवो महत तदा वर्णीमहे वयम |
वर्ष्णामस्मभ्यमूतये ||
ते नः सन्तु युजः सदा वरुणो मित्रो अर्यमा |
वर्धासश्च परचेतसः ||
अति नो विष्पिता पुरु नौभिरपो न पर्षथ |
यूयं रतस्यरथ्यः ||
वामं नो अस्त्वर्यमन वामं वरुण शंस्यम |
वामं हयाव्र्णीमहे ||
वामस्य हि परचेतस ईशानाशो रिशादसः |
नेमादित्या अघस्य यत ||
वयमिद वः सुदानवः कषियन्तो यान्तो अध्वन्ना |
देवा वर्धाय हूमहे ||
अधि न इन्द्रैषां विष्णो सजात्यानाम |
इता मरुतो अश्विना ||
पर भरात्र्त्वं सुदानवो.अध दविता समान्या |
मातुर्गर्भे भरामहे ||
यूयं हि षठा सुदानव इन्द्रज्येष्ठा अभिद्यवः |
अधाचिद व उत बरुवे ||
devānāmidavo mahat tadā vṛṇīmahe vayam |
vṛṣṇāmasmabhyamūtaye ||
te naḥ santu yujaḥ sadā varuṇo mitro aryamā |
vṛdhāsaśca pracetasaḥ ||
ati no viṣpitā puru naubhirapo na parṣatha |
yūyaṃ ṛtasyarathyaḥ ||
vāmaṃ no astvaryaman vāmaṃ varuṇa śaṃsyam |
vāmaṃ hyāvṛṇīmahe ||
vāmasya hi pracetasa īśānāśo riśādasaḥ |
nemādityā aghasya yat ||
vayamid vaḥ sudānavaḥ kṣiyanto yānto adhvannā |
devā vṛdhāya hūmahe ||
adhi na indraiṣāṃ viṣṇo sajātyānām |
itā maruto aśvinā ||
pra bhrātṛtvaṃ sudānavo.adha dvitā samānyā |
māturgharbhe bharāmahe ||
yūyaṃ hi ṣṭhā sudānava indrajyeṣṭhā abhidyavaḥ |
adhācid va uta bruve ||
English Translation
Translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith
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.