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    "chapter": 37
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    "n": 37,
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-37:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-37:2",
        "text": "1. Do homage unto Varuna's and Mitra's Eye: offer this solemn worship to the Mighty God,"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-37:3",
        "text": "Who seeth far away, the Ensign, born of Gods. Sing praises unto Surya, to the Son of Dyaus."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-37:4",
        "text": "2. May this my truthful speech guard me on every side wherever heaven and earth and days are spread abroad."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-37:5",
        "text": "All else that is in motion finds a place of rest: the waters ever flow and ever mounts the Sun."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-37:6",
        "text": "3. No godless man from time remotest draws thee down when thou art driving forth with winged dappled Steeds."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-37:7",
        "text": "One lustre waits upon thee moving to the cast, and, Surya, thou arisest with a different light."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-37:8",
        "text": "4. O Surya, with the light whereby thou scatterest gloom, and with thy ray impellest every moving thing,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-37:9",
        "text": "Keep far from us all feeble, worthless sacrifice, and drive away disease and every evil dream."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-37:10",
        "text": "5. Sent forth thou guardest well the Universe's law, and in thy wonted way arisest free from wrath."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-37:11",
        "text": "When Surya, we address our prayers to thee to-day, may the Gods favour this our purpose and desire."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-37:12",
        "text": "6. This invocation, these our words may Heaven and Earth, and Indra and the Waters and the Maruts hear."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-37:13",
        "text": "Ne'er may we suffer want in presence of the Sun, and, living happy lives, may we attain old age."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-37:14",
        "text": "7. Cheerful in spirit, evermore, and keen of sight, with store of children, free from sickness and from sin,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-37:15",
        "text": "Long-living, may we look, O Surya, upon thee uprising day by day, thou great as Mitra is!"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-37:16",
        "text": "8. Surya, may we live long and look upon thee still, thee, O Far-seeing One, bringing the glorious light,"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-37:17",
        "text": "The radiant God, the spring of joy to every eye, as thou art mounting up o'er the high shining flood."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-37:18",
        "text": "9. Thou by whose lustre all the world of life comes forth, and by thy beams again returns unto its rest,"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-37:19",
        "text": "O Surya with the golden hair, ascend for us day after day, still bringing purer innocence."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-37:20",
        "text": "10. Bless us with shine, bless us with perfect daylight, bless us with cold, with fervent heat and lustre."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-37:21",
        "text": "Bestow on us, O Surya, varied riches, to bless us in our home and when we travel."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-37:22",
        "text": "11. Gods, to our living creatures of both kinds vouchsafe protection, both to bipeds and to quadrupeds,"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-37:23",
        "text": "That they may drink and eat invigorating food. So grant us health and strength and perfect innocence."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-37:24",
        "text": "12. If by some grievous sin we have provoked the Gods, O Deities, with the tongue or thoughtlessness of heart,"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-37:25",
        "text": "That guilt, O Vasus, lay upon the Evil One, on him who ever leads us into deep distress."
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