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Rig Veda Book 1 Hymn 172 चित्रो वो.अस्तु यामश्चित्र ऊती सुदानवः | मरुतो अहिभानवः || आरे सा वः सुदानवो मरुत रञ्जती शरुः | आरे अश्मा यमस्यथ || तर्णस्कन्दस्य नु विशः परि वर्ङकत सुदानवः | ऊर्ध्वान नः कर्त जीवसे ||
citro vo.astu yāmaścitra ūtī sudānavaḥ | maruto ahibhānavaḥ || āre sā vaḥ sudānavo maruta ṛñjatī śaruḥ | āre aśmā yamasyatha || tṛṇaskandasya nu viśaḥ pari vṛṅkta sudānavaḥ | ūrdhvān naḥ karta jīvase ||
Translation:
Rig Veda
- 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.