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    "chapter": 123
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        "n": 1,
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        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
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        "text": "1. SEE, Vena, born in light, hath driven hither, on chariot of the air, the Calves of Prsni."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-123:3",
        "text": "Singers with hymns caress him as an infant there where the waters and the sunlight mingle."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-123:4",
        "text": "2. Vena draws up his wave from out the ocean. mist-born, the fair one's back is made apparent,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-123:5",
        "text": "Brightly he shone aloft on Order's summit: the hosts sang glory to their common birthplace."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-123:6",
        "text": "3. Full many, lowing to their joint-possession, dwelling together stood the Darling's Mothers."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-123:7",
        "text": "Ascending to the lofty height of Order, the bands of singers 'sip the sweets of Amrta."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-123:8",
        "text": "4. Knowing his form, the sages yearned to meet him: they have come nigh to hear the wild Bull's bellow."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-123:9",
        "text": "Performing sacrifice they reached the river: for the Gandharva found the immortal waters."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-123:10",
        "text": "5. The Apsaras, the Lady, sweetly smiling, supports her Lover in sublimest heaven."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-123:11",
        "text": "In his Friend's dwelling as a Friend he wanders: he, Vena, rests him on his golden pinion."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-123:12",
        "text": "6. They gaze on thee with longing in their spirit, as on a strong-winged bird that mounteth sky-ward;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-123:13",
        "text": "On thee with wings of gold, Varuna's envoy, the Bird that hasteneth to the home of Yama."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-123:14",
        "text": "7. Erect, to heaven hath the Gandharva mounted, pointing at us his many-coloured weapons;"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-123:15",
        "text": "Clad in sweet raiment beautiful to look on, for he, as light, produceth forms that please us."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-123:16",
        "text": "8. When as a spark he cometh near the ocean, still looking with a vulture's eye to heaven,"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-123:17",
        "text": "His lustre, joying in its own bright splendour, maketh dear glories in the lowest region."
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