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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-124:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-124:2",
        "text": "1. COME to this sacrifice of ours, O Agni, threefold, with seven threads and five divisions."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-124:3",
        "text": "Be our oblation-bearer and preceder: thou hast lain long enough in during darkness."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-124:4",
        "text": "2. I come a God foreseeing from the godless to immortality by secret pathways,"
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        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-124:5",
        "text": "While I, ungracious one, desert the gracious, leave mine own friends and seek the kin of strangers."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-124:6",
        "text": "3. I, looking to the guest of other lineage, have founded many a rule of Law and Order."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-124:7",
        "text": "I bid farewell to the Great God, the Father, and, for neglect, obtain my share of worship."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-124:8",
        "text": "4. I tarried many a year within this altar: I leave the Father, for my choice is Indra."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-124:9",
        "text": "Away pass Agni, Varuna and Soma. Rule ever changes: this I come to favour."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-124:10",
        "text": "5. These Asuras have lost their powers of magic. But thou, O Varuna, if thou dost love me,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-124:11",
        "text": "O King, discerning truth and right from falsehood, come and be Lord and Ruler of my kingdom."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-124:12",
        "text": "6. Here is the light of heaven, here all is lovely; here there is radiance, here is air's wide region."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-124:13",
        "text": "Let us two slaughter Vrtra. Forth, O Soma! Thou art oblation: we therewith will serve thee."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-124:14",
        "text": "7. The Sage hath fixed his form by wisdom in the heavens: Varuna with no violence let the waters flow."
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        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-124:15",
        "text": "Like women-folk, the floods that bring prosperity have you lit his hue and colour as they gleamed and shone."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-124:16",
        "text": "8. These wait upon his loftiest power and vigour: he dwells in these who triumph in their Godhead;"
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        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-124:17",
        "text": "And they, like people who elect their ruler, have in abhorrence turned away from Vrtra."
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        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-124:18",
        "text": "9. They call him Swan, the abhorrent floods' Companion, moving in friendship with celestial Waters."
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        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-124:19",
        "text": "The poets in their thought have looked on Indra swiftly approaching when Anustup calls him."
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