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Rig Veda · 573 of 1027

Mandala 7: HYMN LVII. Maruts.

1.YEA, through the power of your sweet juice, ye Holy! the Marut host is glad at sacrifices. They cause even spacious heaven and earth to tremble, they make the spring flow when they come, the Mighty.

2.The Maruts watch the man who sings their praises, promoters of the thought of him who worships. Seat you on sacred grass in our assembly, this day, with friendly minds, to share the banquet.

3.No others gleam so brightly as these Maruts with their own forms, their golden gauds, their weapons. With all adornments, decking earth and heaven, they heighten, for bright show, their common splendour.

4.Far from us be your blazing dart, O Maruts, when we, through human frailty, sin against you. Let us not he exposed to that, ye Holy! May your most loving favour still attend us.

5.May even what we have done delight the Maruts, the blameless Ones, the bright, the purifying. Further us, O ye Holy, with your kindness: advance us mightily that we may prosper.

6.And may the Maruts, praised by all their titles, Heroes, enjoy the taste of our oblations. Give us of Amṛta for the sake of offspring: awake the excellent fair stores of riches.

7.Hither, ye Maruts, praised, with all your succours, with all felicity come to our princes, Who, of themselves, a hundredfold increase us. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.

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Why do the worshippers ask the Maruts for both protection and wealth in this hymn?

The hymn presents the Maruts as mighty, visible storm‑gods who “heighten… their common splendour” and who animate the world — they make “the spring flow” and cause heaven and earth to tremble, so invoking them seeks their active, benevolent presence in the sacrificers’ life. The singers pair requests for safety (“Far from us be your blazing dart”) with pleas for prosperity and offspring because the Maruts are agents of power who can both punish and confer Amṛta, wealth, and increase when pleased by praise and oblation.

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