{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe32/sbe3253.htm","path":"hin/sbe32/sbe3253.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe32/sbe3253.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part I (SBE32), by Max M\u00fcller, [1891]\n1. Let me with my voice shower 1 wealth like cloud-showers 2, like sacrifices of a sage, rich in oblations. I have praised the goodly host of the Maruts 3, so that they may be worthy of a Brahman 4 so that they may be glorious.\n2. These boys have prepared their ornaments for beauty, the goodly host of the Maruts, through many nights; the sons of Dyu struggled, like harts, they, the \u00c2dityas, grew high, like banners 1.\n3. They who by their own might seem to have risen above heaven and earth, like the sun above the cloud, they are glorious, like brilliant heroes, they shine forth like foe-destroying youths.\n4. When you move along on the bottom of the waters, the earth seems to break and to melt 1. This perfect sacrifice is meet for you, come hither together, as if enjoying our offerings.\n5. You are as drivers 1 on the poles with their reins, and as brilliant with light at daybreak; like hawks, you are famous destroyers of foes; like wells 2 springing forth, you scatter moisture.\n6. When you, O Maruts, come from afar, knowing the great treasure of the hidden place, O Vasus, the treasure which has to be gained, then keep away also from afar all who hate us.\n7. The man who, firm in his sacrifice, offers gifts to the Maruts to the end of the ceremony 1, he\ngains health and wealth, blessed with offspring; he shall also be in the keeping of the gods.\n8. They are indeed our guardians, to be worshipped at all sacrifices, most blissful by their name of \u00c2dityas; may they, swiftly driving on their chariots, protect our prayer, quick even on their march, delighting in our sacrifice.\nAscribed to Sy\u00fbmarasmi Bh\u00e2rgava. On the metre, see Rig-veda, translation, Introd. p. civ; Benfey, Quantit\u00e4tsversch. IV, 2; 38-39; Oldenberg, Prolegomena, 92. This hymn and the next belong closely together. They are both so artificial and obscure that a translation of them can only be tentative. None of its verses occurs in SV., VS., AV., TS., TB., MS.\nNote 1. I take prush\u00e2 for prush\u00e2ni.\nNote 2. I do not think that abhrapr\u00fashah can be meant for the Maruts.\nNote 3. The n\u00e1 in many of the verses seems to be due to a mere trick, and untranslatable.\nNote 4. Or, 'I have praised the priestly host, so that they may be worthy of good Marut-hood.'\nNote 1. Akr\u00e2\u00b4h, banners, Grassmann; columns, Ludwig. The meaning is utterly unknown.\nNote 1. See Aurel Mayr, Beitr\u00e4ge aus dem Rig-Veda. p. 12. 'The earth melted,' see Ps. xlvi. 6.\nNote 1. Prayug seems to mean here a driver; pra-yug is often used of the Maruts as harnessing or driving their horses; see I, 85, 5; V, 52, 8.\nNote 2. Prava has been derived from pru, to float. I should prefer to derive it from pra-van, from which we have pra-vana, precipice, possibly the Latin adjective pronus, and, very irregularly, Greek \u03c0\u03c1\u03b7\u03bd\u03ae\u03c2. Stems in radical n frequently enter the class of stems in \u00e2 and a, and pravan would become prav\u00e2h or pravah, as -gan becomes -g\u00e2h and -gah; cf. Lanman,\np. 478. Others take vana for a mere suffix like vat. Prava, rushing forward, would have been a good name for a spring. This, of course, is a mere conjecture. Others derive prav\u00e2-s from v\u00e2, to blow. As a substantive prav\u00e2 as well as upav\u00e2 occurs AV. XII, 1, 51. v\u00e2\u00b4tasya prav\u00e2\u00b4m upav\u00e2\u00b4m \u00e1nu v\u00e2ty ark\u00edh. But these words mean the blowing before and the blowing after, and not blowers. There are the verbs prav\u00e2 and anuv\u00e2 in T\u00e2ndya Br. I, 9, 7; TS. III, 5, 2, 3; IV, 4, 1, 1. They are there referred to dawn and night. These passages, however, seem too technical to allow us to fix the original meaning of prava-h. Prav\u00e2 in RV. I, 34, 8, remains unexplained.\nNote 1. On udriki, see Ludwig's note.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part I (SBE32): Vedic Hymns: X, 77. To the M...","type":"page"}