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    "book": "rig-veda-book-10",
    "chapter": 28
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  "data": {
    "n": 28,
    "bookSlug": "rig-veda-book-10",
    "bookCode": "RV10",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-28:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-28:2",
        "text": "1. Now all my other friends are here assembled: my Sire-in-law alone hath not come hither."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-28:3",
        "text": "So might he eat the grain and drink the Soma, and, satisfied, return unto; his dwelling."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-28:4",
        "text": "2. Loud belloweth the Bull whose horns are sharpened: upon the height above earth's breadth he standeth."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-28:5",
        "text": "That man I guard and save in all his troubles who fills my flanks when he hath shed the Soma."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-28:6",
        "text": "3. Men with the stone press out for thee, O Indra, strong, gladdening Soma, and thereof thou drinkest."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-28:7",
        "text": "Bulls they dress for thee, and of these thou eatest when, Maghavan, with food thou art invited."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-28:8",
        "text": "4. Resolve for me, O singer, this my riddle: The rivers send their swelling water backward:"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-28:9",
        "text": "The fox steals up to the approaching lion: the jackal drives the wild-boar from the brushwood."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-28:10",
        "text": "5. How shall I solve this riddle, I, the simple, declare the thought of thee the Wise and Mighty?"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-28:11",
        "text": "Tell us, well knowing, as befits the season: Whitherward is thy prosperous car advancing?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-28:12",
        "text": "6. Thus do they magnify me, me the mighty higher than even high heaven is my car-pole."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-28:13",
        "text": "I all at once demolish many thousands: my Sire begot me with no foe to match me."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-28:14",
        "text": "7. Yea, and the Gods have known me also, Indra, as mighty, fierce and strong in every exploit."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-28:15",
        "text": "Exulting with the bolt I slaughtered Vrtra, and for the offerer open with might the cow-stall."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-28:16",
        "text": "8. The Deities approached, they carried axes; splitting the wood they came with their attendants."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-28:17",
        "text": "They laid good timber in the fire-receivers, and burnt the grass up where they found it growing."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-28:18",
        "text": "9. The hare hath swallowed up the opposing razor: I sundered with a clod the distant mountain."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-28:19",
        "text": "The great will I make subject to the little: the calf shall wax in strength and cat the bullock."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-28:20",
        "text": "10. There hath the strong-winged eagle left his talon, as a snared lion leaves the trap that caught him."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-28:21",
        "text": "Even the wild steer in his thirst is captured: the leather strap still holds his foot entangled."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-28:22",
        "text": "11. So may the leather strap their foot entangle who fatten on the viands of the Brahman."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-28:23",
        "text": "They all devour the bulls set free to wander, while they themselves destroy their bodies' vigour."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-28:24",
        "text": "12. They were well occupied with holy duties who sped in person with their lauds to Soma."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-28:25",
        "text": "Speaking like man, mete to us wealth and booty: in heaven thou hast the name and fame of Hero."
      }
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