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    "chapter": 44
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-44:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-44:2",
        "text": "1. MAY Sovran Indra come to the carousal, he who by Holy Law is strong and active,"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-44:3",
        "text": "The overcomer of all conquering forces with his great steer-like power that hath no limit."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-44:4",
        "text": "2. Firm-seated is thy car, thy Steeds are docile; thy hand, O King, holds, firmly grasped, the thunder."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-44:5",
        "text": "On thy fair path, O Lord of men, come quickly: we will increase thy powers when thou hast drunken."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-44:6",
        "text": "3. Let strong and mighty Steeds who bear this Mighty Indra, the Lord of men, whose arm wields thunder,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-44:7",
        "text": "Bring unto us, as sharers of our banquet, the Steer of conquering might, of real vigour."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-44:8",
        "text": "4. So like a Bull thou rushest to the Lord who loves the trough, the Sage, the prop of vigour, in the vat,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-44:9",
        "text": "Prepare thine energies, collect them in thyself: be for our profit as the Master of the wise."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-44:10",
        "text": "5. May precious treasures come to us-so will I pray. Come to the votary's gift offered with beauteous laud."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-44:11",
        "text": "Thou art the Lord, as such sit on this holy grass: thy vessels are inviolate as Law commands."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-44:12",
        "text": "6. Far went our earliest invocation of the Gods, and won us glories that can never be surpassed."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-44:13",
        "text": "They who could not ascend the ship of sacrifice, sink down in desolation, trembling with alarm."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-44:14",
        "text": "7. So be the others, evil-hearted, far away, whose horses, difficult to harness, have been yoked."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-44:15",
        "text": "Here in advance men stand anear to offer gifts, by whom full many a work that brings reward is done."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-44:16",
        "text": "8. He firmly fixed the plains and mountains as they shook. Dyaus thundered forth and made the air's mid-region quake."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-44:17",
        "text": "He stays apart the two confronting bowls; he sings lauds in the potent Soma's joy when he hath drunk."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-44:18",
        "text": "9. I bear this deftly-fashioned goad of thine, wherewith thou, Maghavan, shalt break the strikers with the hoof."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-44:19",
        "text": "At this libation mayst thou be well satisfied. Partake the juice, partake the worship, Maghavan."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-44:20",
        "text": "10. O Much-invoked, may we subdue all famine and evil want with store of grain and cattle."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-44:21",
        "text": "May we allied, as first in rank, with princes obtain possessions by our own exertion."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-44:22",
        "text": "11. Brhaspati protect us from the rearward, and from above, and from below, from sinners."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-44:23",
        "text": "May Indra from the front and from the centre, as Friend to friends, vouchsafe us room and freedom."
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