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    "book": "rig-veda-book-10",
    "chapter": 68
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    "n": 68,
    "bookSlug": "rig-veda-book-10",
    "bookCode": "RV10",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-68:1",
        "text": "translated by"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-68:2",
        "text": "1. LIKE birds who keep their watch, plashing in water, like the loud voices of the thundering rain-cloud,"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-68:3",
        "text": "Like merry streamlets bursting from the mountain, thus to Brhaspati our hymns have sounded."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-68:4",
        "text": "2. The Son of Angirases, meeting the cattle, as Bhaga, brought in Aryaman among us."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-68:5",
        "text": "As Friend of men he decks the wife and husband: as for the race, Brhaspati, nerve our coursers."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-68:6",
        "text": "3. Brhaspati, having won them from the mountains, strewed down, like barley out of winnowing- baskets,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-68:7",
        "text": "The vigorous, wandering cows who aid the pious, desired of all, of blameless form, well-coloured."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-68:8",
        "text": "4. As the Sun dews with meath the seat of Order, and casts a flaming meteor down from heaven."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-68:9",
        "text": "So from the rock Brhaspati forced the cattle, and cleft the earth's skin as it were with water."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-68:10",
        "text": "5. Forth from mid air with light he drave the darkness, as the gale blows a lily from the fiver."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-68:11",
        "text": "Like the wind grasping at the cloud of Vala, Brhaspati gathered to himself the cattle,"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-68:12",
        "text": "6. Brhaspati, when he with fiery lightnings cleft through the weapon of reviling Vala,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-68:13",
        "text": "Consumed.him as tongues cat what teeth have compassed: he threw the prisons of the red cows open."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-68:14",
        "text": "7. That secret name borne by the lowing cattle within the cave Brhaspati discovered,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-68:15",
        "text": "And drave, himself, the bright kine from the mountain, like a bird's young after the egg's disclosure."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-68:16",
        "text": "8. He looked around on rock-imprisoned sweetness as one who eyes a fish in scanty water."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-68:17",
        "text": "Brhaspati, cleaving through with varied clamour, brought it forth like a bowl from out the timber."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-68:18",
        "text": "9. He found the light of heaven, and fire, and Morning: with lucid rays he forced apart the darkness."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-68:19",
        "text": "As from a joint, Brhaspati took the marrow of Vala as he gloried in his cattle."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-68:20",
        "text": "10. As trees for foliage robbed by winter, Vala mourned for the cows Brhaspati had taken."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-68:21",
        "text": "He did a deed ne'er done, ne'er to be equalled, whereby the Sun and Moon ascend alternate."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-68:22",
        "text": "11. Like a dark steed adorned with pearl, the Fathers have decorated heaven With constellations."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-68:23",
        "text": "They set the light in day, in night the darkness. Brhaspati cleft the rock and found the cattle."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-68:24",
        "text": "12. This homage have we offered to the Cloud God who thunders out to many in succession."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-68:25",
        "text": "May this Brhaspati vouchsafe us fulness of life with kine and horses, men, and heroes."
      }
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