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    "chapter": 77
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-77:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-77:2",
        "text": "1. As with their voice from cloud they sprinkle treasure so are the wise man's liberal sacrifices."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-77:3",
        "text": "I praise their Company that merits worship as the good Maruts' priest to pay them honour."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-77:4",
        "text": "2. The youths have wrought their ornaments for glory through many nights,-this noble band of Maruts."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-77:5",
        "text": "Like stags the Sons of Dyatis have striven onward, the Sons of Aditi grown strong like pillars."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-77:6",
        "text": "3. They who extend beyond the earth and heaven, by their own mass, as from the cloud spreads Surya;"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-77:7",
        "text": "Like mighty Heroes covetous of glory, like heavenly gallants who destroy the wicked."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-77:8",
        "text": "4. When ye come nigh, as in the depth of waters, the earth is loosened, as it were, and shaken."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-77:9",
        "text": "This your all-feeding sacrifice approaches: come all united, fraught, as 'twere with viands."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-77:10",
        "text": "5. Ye are like horses fastened to the chariot poles, luminous with your beams, with splendour as at dawn;"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-77:11",
        "text": "Like self-bright falcons, punishers of wicked men, like hovering birds urged forward, scattering rain around."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-77:12",
        "text": "6. When ye come forth, O Maruts, from the distance, from the great treasury of rich possessions,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-77:13",
        "text": "Knowing, O Vasus, boons that should be granted, even from afar drive back the men who hate us."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-77:14",
        "text": "7. He who, engaged in the rite's final duty brings, as a man, oblation to the Maruts,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-77:15",
        "text": "Wins him life's wealthy fulness, blest with heroes: he shall be present, too, where Gods drink Soma."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-77:16",
        "text": "8. For these are helps adored at sacrifices, bringing good fortune by their name Adityas."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-77:17",
        "text": "Speeding on cars let them protect our praises, delighting in our sacrifice and worship."
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