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    "chapter": 117
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-117:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-117:2",
        "text": "1. THE Gods have not ordained hunger to be our death: even to the well-fed man comes death in varied shape."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-117:3",
        "text": "The riches of the liberal never waste away, while he who will not give finds none to comfort him."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-117:4",
        "text": "2. The man with food in store who, when the needy comes in miserable case begging for bread to eat,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-117:5",
        "text": "Hardens his heart against him-even when of old he did him service-finds not one to comfort him."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-117:6",
        "text": "3. Bounteous is he who gives unto the beggar who comes to him in want of food and feeble."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-117:7",
        "text": "Success attends him in the shout of battle. He makes a friend of him in future troubles."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-117:8",
        "text": "4. No friend is he who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-117:9",
        "text": "Let him depart-no home is that to rest in-, and rather seek a stranger to support him."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-117:10",
        "text": "5. Let the rich satisfy the poor implorer, and bend his eye upon a longer pathway."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-117:11",
        "text": "Riches come now to one, now to another, and like the wheels of cars are ever rolling."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-117:12",
        "text": "6. The foolish man wins food with fruitless labour: that food -I speak the truth- shall be his ruin."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-117:13",
        "text": "He feeds no trusty friend, no man to love him. All guilt is he who eats with no partaker."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-117:14",
        "text": "7. The ploughshare ploughing makes the food that feeds us, and with its feet cuts through the path it follows."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-117:15",
        "text": "Better the speaking than the silent Brahman: the liberal friend out values him who gives not."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-117:16",
        "text": "8. He with one foot hath far outrun the biped, and the two-footed catches the three-footed."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-117:17",
        "text": "Four-footed creatures come when bipeds call them, and stand and look where five are met together."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-117:18",
        "text": "9. The hands are both alike: their labour differs. The yield of sister milch-kine is unequal."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-117:19",
        "text": "Twins even differ in their strength and vigour: two, even kinsmen, differ in their bounty."
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