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    "chapter": 109
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-109:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-109:2",
        "text": "1. THESE first, the boundless Sea, and Matarisvan, fierce-glowing Fire, the Strong, the Bliss-bestower,"
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        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-109:3",
        "text": "And heavenly Floods, first-born by holy Order, exclaimed against the outrage on a Brahman."
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-109:4",
        "text": "2. King Soma first of all, without reluctance, made restitution of the Brahman's consort."
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        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-109:5",
        "text": "Mitra and Varuna were the inviters: Agni as Hota; took her hand and led her."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-109:6",
        "text": "3. The man, her pledge, must by her hand be taken when they have cried, She is a Brahman's consort."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-109:7",
        "text": "She stayed not for a herald to conduct her: thus is the kingdom of a ruler guarded."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-109:8",
        "text": "4. Thus spake of her those Gods of old, Seven Rsis who sate them down to their austere devotion:"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-109:9",
        "text": "Dire is a Brahman's wife led home by others: in the supremest heaven she plants confusion."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-109:10",
        "text": "5. The Brahmacari goes engaged in duty: he is a member of the Gods' own body."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-109:11",
        "text": "Through him Brhaspati obtained his consort, as the Gods gained the ladle brought by Soma."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-109:12",
        "text": "6. So then the Gods restored her, so men gave the woman back again."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-109:13",
        "text": "The Kings who kept their promises restored the Brahman's wedded wife,"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-109:14",
        "text": "7. Having restored the Brahman's wife, and freed them, with Gods' aid, from sin,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-109:15",
        "text": "They shared the fulness of the earth, and won themselves extended sway."
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