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    "chapter": 27
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-27:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-27:2",
        "text": "1. THIS, singer, is my firm determination, to aid the worshipper who pours the Soma."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-27:3",
        "text": "I slay the man who brings no milk oblation, unrighteous, powerful, the truth's perverter."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-27:4",
        "text": "2. Then Will I, when I lead my friends to battle against the radiant persons of the godless,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-27:5",
        "text": "Prepare for thee at home a vigorous bullock, and pour for thee the fifteen-fold strong juices."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-27:6",
        "text": "3. I know not him who sayeth and declareth that he hath slain the godless in the battle."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-27:7",
        "text": "Soon as they see the furious combat raging, men speak forth praises of my vigorous horses."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-27:8",
        "text": "4. While yet my deeds of might were unrecorded, all passed for Maghavans though I existed."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-27:9",
        "text": "The potent one who dwelt in peace I conquered, grasped by the foot and slew him on the mountain."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-27:10",
        "text": "5. None hinder me in mine heroic exploits, no, not the mountains when I will and purpose."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-27:11",
        "text": "Even the deaf will tremble at my roaring, and every day will dust be agitated."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-27:12",
        "text": "6. To see the Indraless oblation-drinkers, mean offerers, o'ertaken by destruction!"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-27:13",
        "text": "Then shall the fellies of my car pass over those who have blamed my joyous Friend and scorned him."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-27:14",
        "text": "7. Thou wast, thou grewest to full vital vigour: an earlier saw, a later one shall see thee."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-27:15",
        "text": "Two canopies, as 'twere, are round about him who reacheth to the limit of this region."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-27:16",
        "text": "8. The freed kine eat the barley of the pious. 1 saw them as they wandered with the herdsman."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-27:17",
        "text": "The calling of the pious rang around them. What portion will these kine afford their owner?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-27:18",
        "text": "9. When we who cat the grass of men are gathered I am with barley-eaters in the corn-land."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-27:19",
        "text": "There shall the captor yoke the yokeless bullock, and he who hath been yoked seek one to loose him."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-27:20",
        "text": "10. There wilt thou hold as true my spoken purpose, to bring together quadrupeds. and bipeds."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-27:21",
        "text": "I will divide, without a fight, his riches who warreth here, against the Bull, with women."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-27:22",
        "text": "11. When a man's daughter hath been ever eyeless, who, knowing, will be wroth with her for blindness?"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-27:23",
        "text": "Which of the two will loose on him his anger-the man who leads her home or he who woos her?"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-27:24",
        "text": "12. How many a maid is pleasing to the suitor who fain would marry for her splendid riches?"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-27:25",
        "text": "If the girl be both good and fair of feature, she finds, herself, a friend among the people."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "RV10-27:26",
        "text": "13. His feet have grasped: he eats the man who meets him. Around his head he sets the head for shelter."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "RV10-27:27",
        "text": "Sitting anear and right above he smites us, and follows earth that lies spread out beneath him."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "RV10-27:28",
        "text": "14. High, leafless, shadowless, and swift is Heaven: the Mother stands, the Youngling, loosed, is feeding."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "RV10-27:29",
        "text": "Loud hath she lowed, licking Another's offspring. In what world hath the Cow laid down her udder?"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "RV10-27:30",
        "text": "15. Seven heroes from the nether part ascended, and from the upper part came eight together."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "RV10-27:31",
        "text": "Nine from behind came armed with winnowing-baskets: ten from the front pressed o'er the rock's high ridges."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "RV10-27:32",
        "text": "16. One of the ten, the tawny, shared in common, they send to execute their final purpose."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "RV10-27:33",
        "text": "The Mother carries on her breast the Infant of noble form and soothes it while it knows not."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "RV10-27:34",
        "text": "17. The Heroes dressed with fire the fatted weather: the dice were thrown by way of sport and gaming."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "RV10-27:35",
        "text": "Two reach the plain amid the heavenly waters, hallowing and with means of purifying."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "RV10-27:36",
        "text": "18. Crying aloud they ran in all directions: One half of them will cook, and not the other."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "RV10-27:37",
        "text": "To me hath Savitar, this God, declared it: He will perform, whose food is wood and butter."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "RV10-27:38",
        "text": "19. I saw a troop advancing from the distance moved, not by wheels but their own God-like nature."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "RV10-27:39",
        "text": "The Friendly One seeks human generations, destroying, still new bands of evil beings."
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "RV10-27:40",
        "text": "20. These my two Bulls, even Pramara's, are harnessed: drive them not far; here let them often linger."
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "RV10-27:41",
        "text": "The waters even shall aid him to his object, and the all-cleansing Sun who is above us."
      },{
        "n": 42,
        "refId": "RV10-27:42",
        "text": "21. This is the thunderbolt which often whirleth down from the lofty misty realm of Surya."
      },{
        "n": 43,
        "refId": "RV10-27:43",
        "text": "Beyond this realm there is another glory so through old age they pass and feel no sorrow."
      },{
        "n": 44,
        "refId": "RV10-27:44",
        "text": "22. Bound fast to,every tree the cow is lowing, and thence the man-consuming birds are flying,"
      },{
        "n": 45,
        "refId": "RV10-27:45",
        "text": "Then all this world, though pressing juice for Indra and strengthening the Rsi, is affrighted."
      },{
        "n": 46,
        "refId": "RV10-27:46",
        "text": "23. In the Gods' mansion stood the first-created, and from their separation came the later."
      },{
        "n": 47,
        "refId": "RV10-27:47",
        "text": "Three warm the Earth while holding stores of water, and Two of these convey the murmuring moisture."
      },{
        "n": 48,
        "refId": "RV10-27:48",
        "text": "24. This is thy life: and do thou mark and know it. As such, hide not thyself in time of battle."
      },{
        "n": 49,
        "refId": "RV10-27:49",
        "text": "He manifests the light and hides the vapour: his foot is never free from robes that veil it."
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