soma-drops

Updated: May 24, 2025

Let me therefore bring you hither by my prayers from heaven and earth, for our welfare, and for our great protection; the shakers who were born to bring food and light, self-born and self-supported, like springs, like thousandfold waves of water, aye, visibly like unto excellent bulls, those Maruts, like Soma-drops, which squeezed from ripe stems dwell, when drunk, in the hearts of the worshipper see how on their shoulders there clings as if a clinging wife; in their hands the quoit is held and the sword.

- Sacred Books of the East