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    "chapter": 51
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-51:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-51:2",
        "text": "1. LARGE was that covering, and firm of texture, folded wherein thou enteredst the waters."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-51:3",
        "text": "One Deity alone, O Jatavedas Agni, saw all thy forms in sundry places."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-51:4",
        "text": "2. What God hath seen me? Who of all their number clearly beheld my forms in many places?"
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        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-51:5",
        "text": "Where lie, then, all the sacred logs of Agni that lead him God-ward, Varuna and Mitra?"
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        "n": 6,
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        "text": "3. In many places, Agni Jatavedas, we sought thee hidden in the plants and waters."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-51:7",
        "text": "Then Yama marked thee, God of wondrous splendour! effulgent from thy tenfold secret dwelling,"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-51:8",
        "text": "4. I fled in fear from sacrificial worship, Varuna, lest the Gods should thus engage me."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-51:9",
        "text": "Thus were my forms laid down in many places. This, as my goal, I Agni saw before me."
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        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-51:10",
        "text": "5. Come; man is pious and would fain do worship, he waits prepared: in gloom thou, Agni, dwellest."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-51:11",
        "text": "Make pathways leading God-ward clear and easy, and bear oblations with a kindly spirit."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-51:12",
        "text": "6. This goal mine elder brothers erst selected, as he who drives a car the way to travel."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-51:13",
        "text": "So,Varuna, I fled afar through terror, as flies the wild-bull from an archer's bowstring."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-51:14",
        "text": "7. We give thee life unwasting, Jatavedas, so that, employed, thou never shalt be injured."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-51:15",
        "text": "So, nobly born! shalt thou with kindly spirit bear to the Gods their share of men's oblations."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-51:16",
        "text": "8. Grant me the first oblations and the latter, entire, my forceful shares of holy presents,"
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        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-51:17",
        "text": "The soul of plants, the fatness of the waters, and let there be long life, ye Gods, to Agni."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-51:18",
        "text": "9. Thine be the first oblations and the latter, entire, thy forceful shares of holy presents."
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        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-51:19",
        "text": "Let all this sacrifice be thine, O Agni, and let the world's four regions bow before thee."
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