Translations of Rig Veda Suktas 33-121 by M.P. Pandit

HYMN 87

Rishi : GOTAMA Deity: MARUTS

1. Assailers, strong, exhuberant, unbent, well-beloved, manliest, they are beheld with their radiances, like scant rays with stars.

2. When, Maruts, flying like birds along their course, ye pile the moving Cloud on the steeps, then the store-Clouds pour forth near your cars; do ye shower upon your worshipper honey-hued clarity.

3. When they assemble for happy shower, earth trembles at their gallopings as if by fear; sportive, lightning-speared, impetuous, shakers, they display their mightiness on their own,

4. Self-moving, with spotted coursers, youthful, invested with strengths, truthful, remover of debts, blameless, showerer, increaser of our sustaining thought, is this host, master of all.

5. Born of the ancient Father, we speak. Our speech darts (to the Maruts) at the very sight of the Soma libation. When with hymns of praise they attain to Indra in action, then alone do they (Maruts) acquire their sacrificial Names.

The Maruts become worship-worthy only when partake in the work of Indra.

6. With radiant rays, they seek to pour happy shower and along with the Gods lauded⁴⁶