Rigveda 1.085.05
Rigveda · Mandala 1, Sukta 85 · Verse 1.85.5
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
प्र यद्रथे॑षु॒ पृष॑ती॒रयु॑ग्ध्वं॒ वाजे॒ अद्रिं॑ मरुतो रं॒हय॑न्तः । उ॒तारु॒षस्य॒ वि ष्य॑न्ति॒ धारा॒श्चर्मे॑वो॒दभि॒र्व्यु॑न्दन्ति॒ भूम॑
pra yadratheṣu pṛṣatīrayugdhvaṃ vāje adriṃ maruto raṃhayantaḥ utāruṣasya vi ṣyanti dhārāścarmevodabhirvyundanti bhūma
When they sounded in the chariots, the plains were yoked; the Maruts assailed the mountain peaks. Rivers and streams cut through the hides, and the lands split apart, pouring forth.
When, Maruts, urging on the cloud, for the sake of (providing) food, you have yoked the deer to your chariots, the drops fall from the radiant (sun), and moisten the earth, like a hide, with water.
When ye have harnessed to your cars the spotted deer, urging the thunderbolt, O Maruts, to the fray, Forth rush the torrents of the dark red stormy cloud, and moisten, like a skin, the earth with water-floods.