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    "chapter": 18
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-18:1",
        "text": "translated by"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-18:2",
        "text": "1. Go hence, O Death, pursue thy special pathway apart from that which Gods are wont to travel."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-18:3",
        "text": "To thee I say it who hast eyes and hearest: Touch not our offspring, injure not our heroes."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-18:4",
        "text": "2. As ye have come effacing Mrtyu's footstep, to further times prolonging your existence,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-18:5",
        "text": "May ye be rich in children and possessions. cleansed, purified, and meet for sacrificing."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-18:6",
        "text": "3. Divided from the dead are these, the living: now be our calling on the Gods successful."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-18:7",
        "text": "We have gone forth for dancing and for laughter, to further times prolonging our existence."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-18:8",
        "text": "4. Here I erect this rampart for the living; let none of these, none other, reach this limit."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-18:9",
        "text": "May they survive a hundred lengthened autumns, and may they bury Death beneath this mountain."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-18:10",
        "text": "5. As the days follow days in close succession, as with the seasons duly come the seasons,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-18:11",
        "text": "As each successor fails not his foregoer, so form the lives of these, O great Ordainer."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-18:12",
        "text": "6. Live your full lives up! find old age delightful, all of you striving one behind the other."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-18:13",
        "text": "May Tvastar, maker of fair things, be gracious and lengthen out the days of your existence."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-18:14",
        "text": "7. Let these unwidowed dames with noble husbands adorn themselves with fragrant balm and unguent."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-18:15",
        "text": "Decked with fair jewels, tearless, free from sorrow, first let the dames go up to where he lieth."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-18:16",
        "text": "8. Rise, come unto the world of life, O woman: come, he is lifeless by whose side thou liest."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-18:17",
        "text": "Wifehood with this thy husband was thy portion, who took thy hand and wooed thee as a lover."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-18:18",
        "text": "9. From his dead hand I take the bow be carried, that it may be our power and might and glory."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-18:19",
        "text": "There art thou, there; and here with noble heroes may we o'ercome all hosts that fight against us."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-18:20",
        "text": "10. Betake thee to the lap of Earth the Mother, of Earth far-spreading, very kind and gracious."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-18:21",
        "text": "Young Dame, wool-soft unto the guerdon giver, may she preserve thee from Destruction's bosom."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-18:22",
        "text": "11. Heave thyself, Earth, nor press thee downward heavily: afford him easy access, gently tending him."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-18:23",
        "text": "Cover him, as a mother wraps her skirt about her child, O Earth."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-18:24",
        "text": "12. Now let the heaving earth be free from motion: yea,- let a thousand clods remain above him."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-18:25",
        "text": "Be they to him a home distilling fatness, here let them ever be his place of refuge."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "RV10-18:26",
        "text": "13. I stay the earth from thee, while over thee I place this piece of earth. May I be free from injury."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "RV10-18:27",
        "text": "Here let the Fathers keep this pillar firm for thee, and there let Yama make thee an abiding-place."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "RV10-18:28",
        "text": "14. Even as an arrow's feathers, they have set me on a fitting day."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "RV10-18:29",
        "text": "The fit word have I caught and held as 'twere a courser with the rein."
      }
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