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Rig Veda · 172 of 1027
1.WONDERFUL let your coming be, wondrous with help, ye Bounteous Ones, Maruts, who gleam as serpents gleam.
2.Far be from us, O Maruts, ye free givers, your impetuous shaft; Far from us be the stone ye hurl.
3.O Bounteous Givers, touch ye not, O Maruts, Tṛṇskanda’s folk; Lift ye us up that we may live.
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Why are the Maruts called both
The hymn calls the Maruts “Bounteous Ones” and likens their brightness to serpents: it asks them to come “wondrous with help” and to be generous protectors. The speakers praise their brilliance while asking them to keep danger — “your impetuous shaft,” “the stone ye hurl” — at a distance, treating the Maruts as powerful storm-deities who can harm as well as give life.
The petition narrows to a local plea: protect “Tṛṇskanda’s folk” and “Lift ye us up that we may live,” framing the Maruts’ bounty as deliverance from violence. This devotional-invocation pattern matches other Rigveda hymns where urgent requests for protection and prosperity appear, as in many hymns to Indra that similarly combine praise with direct appeals for deliverance.
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