{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe32/sbe3240.htm","path":"hin/sbe32/sbe3240.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe32/sbe3240.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part I (SBE32), by Max M\u00fcller, [1891]\n1. I praise 1 now the powerful company of these ever-young Maruts, who drive violently along with quick horses; aye, the sovereigns are lords of Amrita (the immortal).\n2. The terrible company, the powerful, adorned with quoits on their hands, given to roaring, potent, dispensing treasures, they who are beneficent, infinite in greatness, praise, O poet, these men of great wealth!\n3. May your water-carriers come here to-day, all the Maruts who stir up the rain. That fire which has been lighted for you, O Maruts, accept it, O young singers\n4. O worshipful Maruts, you create for man an active king, fashioned by Vibhvan 1; from you comes the man who can fight with his fist, and is quick with his arm, from you the man with good horses and valiant heroes.\n5. Like the spokes of a wheel, no one is last, like the days they are born on and on, not deficient in might. The very high sons of Prisni are full of fury, the Marut cling firmly to their own will 1.\n6. When you have come forth with your speckled deer as horses 1 on strong-fellied chariots, O Maruts, the waters gush, the forests go asunder 2;\u2014let Dyu 3 (Sky) roar down, the bull of the Dawn.\n7. At their approach, even the earth opened wide,\nand they placed (sowed) their own 1 strength (the rain), as a husband the germ. Indeed they have harnessed the winds as horses to the yoke, and the men of Rudra have changed their sweat into rain.\n8. Hark, O heroes, O Maruts! Be gracious to us! You who are of great bounty, immortal, righteous, truly listening to us, poets, young, dwelling on mighty mountains, and grown mighty.\nThe same poet and deity. Metre, Trishtubh. None of the verses occurs in SV., VS., AV., TS. Verses 3 and 5 are found in TB. II, 5, 5, 3; II, 8, 5, 7; MS. IV, 11, 2; IV, 4, 18.\nNote 1. On stush\u00e9, see M. M., Selected Essays, I, p. 162; Wilhelm, De infinitivi forma et usu, p. 10; Bartholomae, in Bezzenberger's Beitr\u00e4ge, XV, p. 219. I take stush\u00e9 as 1 pers. sing. Aor. \u00c2tm. (not, as Avery, of the Present) in many places where it has been taken as an infinitive. For instance, II, 31, 5; VI, 49, 1; 51, 3 (with voke); 62, 1 (with huve); VIII, 5, 4; 7, 32; 74, 1; 84, 1 (here the second p\u00e2da must begin with stush\u00e9). It may be an indicative or a subjunctive. As to stushe, without an accent, its character cannot be doubtful; see I, 122, 8; 159, 1; V, 33, 6; VI, 21, 2; 48, 14; VIII, 21, 9; 23, 2; 23, 7 (grine). In II, 20, 4, t\u00e1m u stushe \u00edndram t\u00e1m grin\u00eeshe, grin\u00eeshe is an aorist with vikarana, like pun\u00eesh\u00e9, I praise that Indra, I laud him. In I, 46, 1, stush\u00e9 may be the infinitive, but not necessarily. It is an infinitive in I, 122, 7. stush\u00e9 s\u00e2 v\u00e2m varuna mitra r\u00e2t\u00edh, your gift, Varuna and Mitra, is to be praised. Likewise in VIII, 4, 17 (see BR. s. v. simian); 24, 1; 63, 3, though in several of these passages it must remain doubtful whether stush\u00e9 should be taken as an absolute infinitive, or as a finite verb. In VIII, 65, 5, \u00edndra grin\u00eesh\u00e9 u stush\u00e9, means, 'Indra, I laud and praise,' as in II, 20, 4.\nNote 1. Vibhva-tasht\u00e1 is generally explained as made by a master, or by Vibhvan, one of the Ribhus. This may be so, though it seems a bold expression (see Bergaigne, II, 410-411). But may it not be a mere synonym of sutashta, and intended for vibhvane tashta? see Selected Essays, I, p. 143.\nNote 1. See Taitt. Br. II, 8, 5, 7. As to mimikshuh, see note to I, 165, 1.\nNote 1. On pr\u00edshat\u00eebhih \u00e1svaih, see II, 34, 4; V, 55, 6. Bergaigne's note (II, p. 378) does not settle the question whether the horses of the Maruts were speckled, or whether they had speckled deer for their horses.\nNote 2. On rinat\u00e9 v\u00e1n\u00e2ni, see V, 57, 3.\nNote 3. Dyaus, the father of the Maruts, the oldest and highest god of heaven, the strong bull, or, it may be, the man of the dawn. See v. Bradke, Dyaus Asura, p. 63; Bergaigne, I, p. 316.\nNote 1. Roth conjectures sv\u00e2m for sv\u00e1m, taking it as a locative of s\u00fb, genetrix. This is not without difficulties, nor is it necessary. That we find in the Rig-veda no other locative in \u00e2m after monosyllabic stems in \u00fb is perhaps no serious objection. But the text as it stands can be translated, 'as a husband the germ, they have placed (sown) their own strength.' S\u00e1vas is the same as vr\u00edshnyam and vr\u00edshni s\u00e1vah in VIII, 3, 8; 10. Dhuh is used like dh\u00e2 in retodh\u00e2.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part I (SBE32): Vedic Hymns: V, 58. To the Maruts (the Storm-gods)","type":"page"}