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    "chapter": 14
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-14:1",
        "text": "translated by"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-14:2",
        "text": "1. HONOUR the King with thine oblations, Yama, Vivasvan's Son, who gathers men together,"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-14:3",
        "text": "Who travelled to the lofty heights above us, who searches out and shows the path to many."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-14:4",
        "text": "2. Yama first found for us a place to dwell in: this pasture never can be taken from Us."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-14:5",
        "text": "Men born on earth tread their own paths that lead them whither our ancient Fathers have departed."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-14:6",
        "text": "3. Mitali prospers there with Kavyas, Yama with Angiras' sons, Brhaspati with Rkvans:"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-14:7",
        "text": "Exalters of the Gods, by Gods exalted, some joy in praise and some in our oblation."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-14:8",
        "text": "4. Come, seat thee on this bed of grass, O Yama, in company with Angirases and Fathers."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-14:9",
        "text": "Let texts recited by the sages bring thee O King, let this oblation make thee joyful."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-14:10",
        "text": "5. Come, Yama, with the Angirases the Holy, rejoice thee here with children of Virupa."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-14:11",
        "text": "To sit on sacred grass at this our worship, I call Vivasvan, too, thy Father hither."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-14:12",
        "text": "6. Our Fathers are Angirases, Navagvas, Atharvans, Bhrgus who deserve the Soma."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-14:13",
        "text": "May these, the Holy, look on us with favour, may we enjoy their gracious loving-kindness."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-14:14",
        "text": "7. Go forth, go forth upon the ancient pathways whereon our sires of old have gone before us."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-14:15",
        "text": "'Mere shalt thou look on both the Kings enjoying their sacred food, God Varuna and Yama."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-14:16",
        "text": "8. Meet Yama, meet the Fathers, meet the merit of free or ordered acts, in highest heaven."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-14:17",
        "text": "Leave sin and evil, seek anew thy dwelling, and bright with glory wear another body."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-14:18",
        "text": "9. Go hence, depart ye, fly in all directions: this place for him the Fathers have provided."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-14:19",
        "text": "Yama bestows on him a place to rest in adorned with days and beams of light and waters."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-14:20",
        "text": "10. Run and outspeed the two dogs, Sarama's offspring, brindled, four-eyed, upon thy happy pathway."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-14:21",
        "text": "Draw nigh then to the gracious-minded Fathers where they rejoice in company with Yama."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-14:22",
        "text": "11. And those two dogs of thine, Yama, the watchers, four-eyed, who look on men and guard the pathway,-"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-14:23",
        "text": "Entrust this man, O King, to their protection, and with prosperity and health endow him."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-14:24",
        "text": "12. Dark-hued, insatiate, with distended nostrils, Yama's two envoys roam among the People;"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-14:25",
        "text": "May they restore to us a fair existence here and to-day, that we may see the sunlight."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "RV10-14:26",
        "text": "13. To Yama pour the Soma, bring to Yama consecrated gifts:"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "RV10-14:27",
        "text": "To Yama sacrifice prepared and heralded by Agni goes."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "RV10-14:28",
        "text": "14. Offer to Yama holy gifts enriched with butter, and draw near:"
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "RV10-14:29",
        "text": "So may he grant that we may live long days of life among the Gods."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "RV10-14:30",
        "text": "15. Offer to Yama, to the King, oblation very rich in meath:"
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "RV10-14:31",
        "text": "Bow down before the Rsis of the ancient times, who made this path in days of old."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "RV10-14:32",
        "text": "16. Into the six Expanses flies the Great One in Trkadrukas."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "RV10-14:33",
        "text": "The Gayatri, the Trstup, all metres in Yama are contained."
      }
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