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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-2:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-2:2",
        "text": "1. GLADDEN the yearning Gods, O thou Most Youthful: bring them, O Lord of Seasons, knowing seasons,"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-2:3",
        "text": "With all the Priests Celestial, O Agni. Best worshipper art thou of all Invokers."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-2:4",
        "text": "2. Thine is the Herald's, thine the Cleanser's office, thinker art thou, wealth-giver, true to Order."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-2:5",
        "text": "Let us with Svaha offer up oblations, and Agni, worthy God, pay the Gods worship."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-2:6",
        "text": "3. To the Gods' pathway have we travelled, ready to execute what work we may accomplish."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-2:7",
        "text": "Let Agni, for he knows, complete the worship. He is the Priest: let him fix rites and seasons."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-2:8",
        "text": "4. When we most ignorant neglect the statutes of you, O Deities with whom is knowledge,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-2:9",
        "text": "Wise Agni shall correct our faults and failings, skilled to assign each God his fitting season."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-2:10",
        "text": "5. When, weak in mind, of feeble understanding, mortals bethink them not of sacrificing,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-2:11",
        "text": "Then shall the prudent and discerning Agni worship the Gods, best worshipper, in season."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-2:12",
        "text": "6. Because the Father hath produced thee, Leader of all our solemn rites, their brilliant Banner:"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-2:13",
        "text": "So win by worship pleasant homes abounding in heroes, and rich food to nourish all men."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-2:14",
        "text": "7. Thou whom the Heaven and Earth, thou whom the Waters, and Tvastar, maker of fair things, created,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-2:15",
        "text": "Well knowing, all along the Fathers' pathway, shine with resplendent light, enkindled, Agni."
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