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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-13:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-13:2",
        "text": "1. I YOKE with prayer your ancient inspiration: may the laud rise as on the prince's pathway."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-13:3",
        "text": "All Sons of Immortality shall hear it, all the possessors of celestial natures."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-13:4",
        "text": "2. When speeding ye came nigh us like twin sisters, religious-hearted votaries brought you forward."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-13:5",
        "text": "Take your place, ye who know your proper station: be near, be very near unto our Soma."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-13:6",
        "text": "3. Five paces have I risen from Earth. I follow her who hath four feet with devout observance."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-13:7",
        "text": "This by the Sacred Syllable have I measured: I purify in the central place of Order,"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-13:8",
        "text": "4. He, for God's sake, chose death to be his portion. He chose not, for men's good, a life eternal"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-13:9",
        "text": "They sacrificed Brhaspati the Rsi. Yama delivered up his own dear body."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-13:10",
        "text": "5. The Seven flow to the Youth on whom the Maruts wait: the Sons unto the Father brought the sacrifice."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-13:11",
        "text": "Both these are his, as his they are the Lords of both: both toil; belonging unto both they prosper well."
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