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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-46:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-46:2",
        "text": "1. STABLISHED for thee, to lend thee vital forces, Giver of wealth, Guard of his servant's body."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-46:3",
        "text": "The Great Priest, born, who knows the clouds, Abider with men, is seated in the lap of waters."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-46:4",
        "text": "2. Worshipping, seeking him with adoration like some lost creature followed by its footprints,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-46:5",
        "text": "Wise Bhrgus, yearning in their hearts, pursued him, and found him lurking where the floods are gathered."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-46:6",
        "text": "3. On the Cow's forehead, with laborious searching, Trita, the offspring of Vibhiavas, found him."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-46:7",
        "text": "Born in our houses, Youthful, joy-bestower, he now becomes the central point of brightness."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-46:8",
        "text": "4. Yearning, with homage, they have set and made him blithe Priest among mankind, oblation-bearer,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-46:9",
        "text": "Leader of rites and Purifier, envoy of men, as sacrifice that still advances."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-46:10",
        "text": "5. The foolish brought the ne'er-bewildered forward, great, Victor, Song-inspirer, Fort-destroyer."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-46:11",
        "text": "Leading the Youth gold-bearded, like a courser gleaming with wealth, they turned their hymn to profit."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-46:12",
        "text": "6. Holding his station firmly in the houses, Trita sat down within his home surrounded"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-46:13",
        "text": "Thence, as Law bids, departs the Tribes' Companion having collected men with no compulsion."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-46:14",
        "text": "7. His are the fires, eternal, purifying, that make the houses move, whose smoke is shining,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-46:15",
        "text": "White, waxing in their strength, for ever stirring, and sitting in the wood; like winds are Somas."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-46:16",
        "text": "8. The tongue of Agni bears away the praise song, and, through his care for Earth, her operations."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-46:17",
        "text": "Him, bright and radiant, living men have stablished as their blithe Priest, the Chief of Sacrificers."
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        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-46:18",
        "text": "9. That Agni, him whom Heaven and Earth engendered, the Waters. Tvastar, and with might, the Bhrgus,"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-46:19",
        "text": "Him Matarisvan and the Gods have fashioned holy for man and first to be entreated."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-46:20",
        "text": "10. Agni, whom Gods have made oblation bearer, and much-desiring men regard as holy,"
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        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-46:21",
        "text": "Give life to him who lauds thee when he worships, and then shall glorious men in troops adore thee."
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