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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-173:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-173:2",
        "text": "1. BE with us; I have chosen thee: stand steadfast and immovable."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-173:3",
        "text": "Let all the people wish for thee let not thy kingship fall away."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-173:4",
        "text": "2. Be even here; fall not away be like a mountain unremoved."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-173:5",
        "text": "Stand steadfast here like Indra's self, and hold the kingship in the grasp."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-173:6",
        "text": "3. This man hath Indra stablished, made secure by strong oblation's power."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-173:7",
        "text": "May Soma speak a benison, and Brahmanaspati, on him."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-173:8",
        "text": "4. Firm is the sky and firm the earth, and steadfast also are these hills."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-173:9",
        "text": "Steadfast is all this living world, and steadfast is this King of men."
      },{
        "n": 10,
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        "text": "5. Steadfast, may Varuna the King, steadfast, the God Brhaspati,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-173:11",
        "text": "Steadfast, may Indra, steadfast too, may Agni keep thy steadfast reign."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-173:12",
        "text": "6. On constant Soma let us think with constant sacrificial gift"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-173:13",
        "text": "And then may Indra make the clans bring tribute unto thee alone."
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