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    "chapter": 162
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-162:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-162:2",
        "text": "1. MAY Agni, yielding to our prayer, the Raksas-slayer, drive away"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-162:3",
        "text": "The malady of evil name that hath beset thy labouring womb."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-162:4",
        "text": "2. Agni, concurring in the prayer, drive off the eater of the flesh,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-162:5",
        "text": "The malady of evil name that hath attacked thy babe and womb."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-162:6",
        "text": "3. That which destroys the sinking germ, the settled, moving embryo,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-162:7",
        "text": "That which will kill the babe at birth, even this will we drive far away."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-162:8",
        "text": "4. That which divides thy legs that it may lie between the married pair,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-162:9",
        "text": "That penetrates and licks thy side, even this will we exterminate."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-162:10",
        "text": "5. What rests by thee in borrowed form of brother, lover, or of lord,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-162:11",
        "text": "And would destroy thy Progeny, even this will we exterminate."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-162:12",
        "text": "6. That which through sleep or darkness hath deceived thee and lies down by thee,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-162:13",
        "text": "And will destroy thy progeny, even this will we exterminate."
      }
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