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    "chapter": 22
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-22:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-22:2",
        "text": "1. WHERE is famed Indra heard of? With what folk is he renowned to-day as Mitra is,-"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-22:3",
        "text": "Who in the home of Rsis and in secret is extolled with song?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-22:4",
        "text": "2. Even here is Indra famed, and among us this day the glorious Thunderer is praised,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-22:5",
        "text": "He who like Mitra mid the folk hath won complete and full renown."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-22:6",
        "text": "3. He who is Sovran Lord of great and perfect strength, exerter of heroic might,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-22:7",
        "text": "Who bears the fearless thunder as a father bears his darling son."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-22:8",
        "text": "4. Harnessing to thy car, as God, two blustering Steeds Of the Wind-God, O Thunderer,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-22:9",
        "text": "That speed along the shining path, thou making ways art glorified."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-22:10",
        "text": "5. Even to these dark Steeds of Wind thou of thyself hast come to ride,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-22:11",
        "text": "Of which no driver may be found, none, be he God or mortal man."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-22:12",
        "text": "6. When ye approach, men ask you, thee and Usana: Why come ye to our dwelling-place?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-22:13",
        "text": "Why are ye come to mortal man from distant realms of earth and heaven?"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-22:14",
        "text": "7. O Indra, thou shalt speak us fair: our holy prayer is offered up."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-22:15",
        "text": "We pray to thee for help as thou didst strike the monster Susna dead."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-22:16",
        "text": "8. Around us is the Dasyu, riteless, void of sense, inhuman, keeping alien laws."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-22:17",
        "text": "Baffle, thou Slayer of the foe, the weapon which this Dasa wields."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-22:18",
        "text": "9. Hero with Heroes, thou art ours: yea, strong are they whom thou dost help."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-22:19",
        "text": "In many a place are thy full gifts, and men, like vassals, sing thy praise."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-22:20",
        "text": "10. Urge thou these heroes on to slay the enemy, brave Thunderer! in the fight with swords."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-22:21",
        "text": "Even when hid among the tribes of Sages numerous as stars."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-22:22",
        "text": "11. Swift come those gifts of thine whose hand is prompt to rend and burn, O Hero Thunder-armed:"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-22:23",
        "text": "As thou with thy Companions didst destroy the whole of Susna's brood."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-22:24",
        "text": "12. Let not thine excellent assistance come to us, O Hero Indra, profitless."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-22:25",
        "text": "May we, may we enjoy the bliss of these thy favours, Thunderer!"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "RV10-22:26",
        "text": "13. May those soft impulses of thine, O Indra, be fruitful and innocent to us."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "RV10-22:27",
        "text": "May we know these whose treasures are like those of milch-kine, Thunderer!"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "RV10-22:28",
        "text": "14. That Earth, through power of knowing things that may be known, handless and footless yet might thrive,"
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "RV10-22:29",
        "text": "Thou slewest, turning to the right, Susna for every living man."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "RV10-22:30",
        "text": "15. Drink, drink the Soma, Hero Indra; be not withheld as thou art good, O Treasure-giver."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "RV10-22:31",
        "text": "Preserve the singers and our liberal princes, and make us wealthy with abundant riches."
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