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Rig Veda · 438 of 1027
1.THOU, of a truth,O Prthivi, bearest the tool that rends the hills: Thou rich in torrents, who with might quickenest earth, O Mighty One.
2.To thee, O wanderer at will, ring out the lauds with beams of day, Who drivest, like a neighing steed, the swelling cloud, O bright of hue.
3.Who graspest with thy might on earth. e’en the strong sovrans of the wood, When from the lightning of thy cloud the rain-floods of the heaven descend.
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Why does the hymn call Prthivi a wanderer and also say she bears a tool that rends the hills?
The hymn names Prthivi as both “wanderer at will” and the bearer of “the tool that rends the hills” to present her as an active, dynamic earth-power: she moves freely across the land and also shapes it by force. The images—“rich in torrents,” “who drivest… the swelling cloud,” and rain poured from her “lightning… the rain-floods of the heaven”—link movement with creative violence, showing fertility produced through dramatic action.
This is a typical Vedic way of portraying a deity as immanent in natural processes, where motion and tool-wielding are two facets of the same agency. Compare Hymn LXXXIII in this mandala, which likewise merges mobility and elemental force to describe how divinities produce growth and sovereignty on earth.
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