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    "book": "rig-veda-book-10",
    "chapter": 23
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    "bookCode": "RV10",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-23:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-23:2",
        "text": "1. INDRA, whose right hand wields the bolt, we worship, driver of Bay Steeds seeking sundered courses."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-23:3",
        "text": "Shaking his beard with might he hath arisen, casting his weapons forth and dealing bounties."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-23:4",
        "text": "2. The treasure which his Bay Steeds found at sacrifice,-this wealth made opulent Indra slayer of the foe."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-23:5",
        "text": "Rbhu, Rbhuksan, Vaja-he is Lord of Might. The Dasa's very name I utterly destroy."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-23:6",
        "text": "3. When, with the Princes, Maghavari, famed of old, comes nigh the thunderbolt of gold, and the Controller's car"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-23:7",
        "text": "Which his two Tawny Coursers draw, then Indra is the Sovran Lord of power whose glory spreads afar."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-23:8",
        "text": "4. With him too is this rain of his that comes like herds: Indra throws drops of moisture on his yellow beard."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-23:9",
        "text": "When the sweet juice is shed he seeks the pleasant place, and stirs the worshipper as wind disturbs the wood."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-23:10",
        "text": "5. We laud and praise his several deeds of valour who, father like, with power hath made us stronger;"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-23:11",
        "text": "Who with his voice slew many thousand wicked ones who spake in varied manners with contemptuous cries."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-23:12",
        "text": "6. Indra, the Vimadas have formed for thee a laud, copious, unparalleled, for thee Most Bountiful."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-23:13",
        "text": "We know the good we gain from him the Mighty One when we attract him as a herdsman calls the kine."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-23:14",
        "text": "7. Ne'er may this bond of friendship be dissevered, the Rsi Vimada's and thine, O Indra."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-23:15",
        "text": "We know thou carest for us as a brother with us, O God, be thine auspicious friendship."
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