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    "chapter": 42
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    "n": 42,
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-42:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-42:2",
        "text": "1. EVEN as an archer shoots afar his arrow, offer the laud to him with meet adornment."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-42:3",
        "text": "Quell with your voice the wicked's voice, O sages. Singer, make Indra rest beside the Soma."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-42:4",
        "text": "2. Draw thy Friend to thee like a cow at milking: O Singer, wake up Indra as a lover."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-42:5",
        "text": "Make thou the Hero haste to give us riches even as a vessel filled brimful with treasure."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-42:6",
        "text": "3. Why, Maghavan, do they call thee Bounteous; Giver? Quicken me: thou, I hear, art he who quickens."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-42:7",
        "text": "Sakra, let my intelligence be active, and bring us luck that finds great wealth, O Indra."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-42:8",
        "text": "4. Standing, in battle for their rights, together, the people, Indra, in the fray invoke thee."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-42:9",
        "text": "Him who brings gifts the Hero makes his comrade: with him who pours no juice he seeks not friendship."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-42:10",
        "text": "5. Whoso with plenteous food for him expresses strong Somas as much quickly-coming treasure,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-42:11",
        "text": "For him he overthrows in early morning his swift well-weaponed foes, and slays the tyrant."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-42:12",
        "text": "6. He unto whom we offer praises, Indra, Maghavan, who hath joined to ours his wishes,-"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-42:13",
        "text": "Before him even afar the foe must tremble: low before him must bow all human glories."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-42:14",
        "text": "7. With thy fierce bolt, O God invoked of many, drive to a distance from afar the foeman."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-42:15",
        "text": "O Indra, give us wealth in corn and cattle, and make thy singer's prayer gain strength and riches."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-42:16",
        "text": "8. Indra, the swallower of strong libations rich in the boons they bring, the potent Somas,"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-42:17",
        "text": "He, Maghavan, will not restrict his bounty he brings much wealth unto the Soma-presser."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-42:18",
        "text": "9. Yea, by superior play he wins advantage, when he, a gambler, piles his gains in season."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-42:19",
        "text": "Celestial-natured, he o'erwhelms with riches the devotee who keeps not back his treasure."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-42:20",
        "text": "10. O Much-invoked, may we subdue all famine and evil want with store of grain and cattle."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-42:21",
        "text": "May we allied, as first in rank, with princes obtain possessions by our own exertion."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-42:22",
        "text": "11. Brhaspati protect us from the rearward, and from above, and from below, from sinners!"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-42:23",
        "text": "May Indra from the front, and from the centre, as Friend to friends, vouchsafe us room and freedom."
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