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    "chapter": 142
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    "n": 142,
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-142:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-142:2",
        "text": "1. WITH thee, O Agni, was this singer of the laud: he hath no other kinship, O thou Son of Strength."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-142:3",
        "text": "Thou givest blessed shelter with a triple guard. Keep the destructive lightning far away from us."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-142:4",
        "text": "2. Thy birth who seekest food is in the falling flood, Agni: as Comrade thou winnest all living things."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-142:5",
        "text": "Our coursers and our songs shall be victorious: they of themselves advance like one who guards the herd."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-142:6",
        "text": "3. And thou, O Agni, thou of Godlike nature, sparest the stones, while caring up the brushwood."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-142:7",
        "text": "Then are thy tracks like deserts in the corn-lands. Let us not stir to wrath thy mighty arrow."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-142:8",
        "text": "4. O'er hills through vales devouring as thou goest, thou partest like an army fain for booty"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-142:9",
        "text": "As when a barber shaves a beard, thou shavest earth when the wind blows on thy flame and fans it."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-142:10",
        "text": "5. Apparent are his lines as he approaches the course is single, but the cars are many,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-142:11",
        "text": "When, Agni, thou, making thine arms resplendent, advancest o'er the land spread out beneath thee."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-142:12",
        "text": "6. Now let thy strength, thy burning flames fly upward, thine energies, O Agni, as thou toilest."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-142:13",
        "text": "Gape widely, bend thee, waxing in thy vigour: let all the Vasus sit this day beside thee."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-142:14",
        "text": "7. This is the waters' reservoir, the great abode of gathered streams."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-142:15",
        "text": "Take thou another path than this, and as thou listest walk thereon."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-142:16",
        "text": "8. On thy way hitherward and hence let flowery Durva grass spring up"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-142:17",
        "text": "Let there be lakes with lotus blooms. These are the mansions of the flood."
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