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    "chapter": 71
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-71:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-71:2",
        "text": "1. WHEN-men, Brhaspati, giving names to objects, sent out Vak's first and earliest utterances,"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-71:3",
        "text": "All that was excellent and spotless, treasured within them, was disclosed through their affection."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-71:4",
        "text": "2. Where, like men cleansing corn-flour in a cribble, the wise in spirit have created language,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-71:5",
        "text": "Friends see and recognize the marks of friendship: their speech retains the blessed sign imprinted."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-71:6",
        "text": "3. With sacrifice the trace of Vak they followed, and found her harbouring within the Rsis."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-71:7",
        "text": "They brought her, dealt her forth in many places: seven singers make her tones resound in concert."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-71:8",
        "text": "4. One man hath ne'er seen Vak, and yet he seeth: one man hath hearing but hath never heard her."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-71:9",
        "text": "But to another hath she shown her beauty as a fond well-dressed woman to her husband."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-71:10",
        "text": "5. One man they call a laggard, dull in friendship: they never urge him on to deeds of valour."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-71:11",
        "text": "He wanders on in profitless illusion: the Voice he heard yields neither fruit, nor blossom."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-71:12",
        "text": "6. No part in Vak hath he who hath abandoned his own dear friend who knows the truth of friendship."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-71:13",
        "text": "Even if he hears her still in vain he listens: naught knows he of the path of righteous action."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-71:14",
        "text": "7. Unequal in the quickness of their spirit are friends endowed alike with eyes and hearing."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-71:15",
        "text": "Some look like tanks that reach the mouth or shoulder, others like pools of water fit to bathe in."
      },{
        "n": 16,
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        "text": "8. When friendly Brahmans sacrifice together with mental impulse which the heart hath fashioned,"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-71:17",
        "text": "They leave one far behind through their attainments, and some who count as Brahmans wander elsewhere."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-71:18",
        "text": "9. Those men who step not back and move not forward, nor Brahmans nor preparers of libations,"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-71:19",
        "text": "Having attained to Vak in sinful fashion spin out their thread in ignorance like spinsters."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-71:20",
        "text": "10. All friends are joyful in the friend who cometh in triumph, having conquered in assembly."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-71:21",
        "text": "He is their blame-averter, food-provider prepared is he and fit for deed of vigour."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-71:22",
        "text": "11. One plies his constant task reciting verses. one sings the holy psalm in Sakvari measures."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-71:23",
        "text": "One more, the Brahman, tells the lore of being, and one lays down the rules of sacrificing."
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