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    "chapter": 108
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    "n": 108,
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-108:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-108:2",
        "text": "1. WHAT wish of Sarama hath brought her hither? The path leads far away to distant places."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-108:3",
        "text": "What charge hast thou for us? Where turns thy journey? How hast thou made thy way o'er Rasa's waters."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-108:4",
        "text": "2. I come appointed messenger of Indra, seeking your ample stores of wealth, O Panis."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-108:5",
        "text": "This hath preserved me from the fear of crossing: thus have I made my way o'er Rasa's waters."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-108:6",
        "text": "3. What is that Indra like, what is his aspect whose envoy, Sarama, from afar thou comest?"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-108:7",
        "text": "Let him approach, and we will show him friendship: he shall be made the herdsman of our cattle."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-108:8",
        "text": "4. I know him safe from harm: but he can punish who sent me hither from afar as envoy."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-108:9",
        "text": "Him rivers flowing with deep waters bide not. Low will ye be, O Panis, slain by Indra."
      },{
        "n": 10,
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        "text": "5. These are the kine which, Sarama, thou seekest, flying, O Blest One, to the ends of heaven."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-108:11",
        "text": "Who will loose these for thee without a battle? Yea, and sharp-pointed are our warlike weapons."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-108:12",
        "text": "6. Even if your wicked bodies, O ye Panis, were arrow-proof, your words are weak for wounding;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-108:13",
        "text": "And were the path to you as yet unmastered, Brhaspati in neither case will spare you."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-108:14",
        "text": "7. Paved with the rock is this our treasure-chamber; filled full of precious things, of kine, and horses."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-108:15",
        "text": "These Panis who are watchful keepers guard it. In vain hast thou approached this lonely station."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-108:16",
        "text": "8. Rsis will come inspirited with Soma, Angirases unwearied, and Navagvas."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-108:17",
        "text": "This stall of cattle will they part among them: then will the Panis wish these words unspoken."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-108:18",
        "text": "9. Even thus, O Sarama, hast thou come hither, forced by celestial might to make the journey."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-108:19",
        "text": "Turn thee not back, for thou shalt be our sister: O Blest One, we will give thee of the cattle."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-108:20",
        "text": "10. Brotherhood, sisterhood, I know not either: the dread Angirases and Indra know them."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-108:21",
        "text": "They seemed to long for kine when I departed. Hence, into distance, be ye gone, O Panis."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-108:22",
        "text": "11. Hence, far away, ye Panis! Let the cattle lowing come forth as holy Law commandeth,"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-108:23",
        "text": "Kine which Brhaspati, and Soma, Rsis, sages, and pressing-stones have found when hidden."
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