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    "chapter": 81
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    "n": 81,
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-81:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-81:2",
        "text": "1. HE who sate down as Hotar-priest, the Rsi, our Father, offering up all things existing,-"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-81:3",
        "text": "He, seeking through his wish a great possession, came among men on earth as archetypal."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-81:4",
        "text": "2. What was the place whereon he took his station? What was it that supported him? How was it?"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-81:5",
        "text": "Whence Visvakarman, seeing all, producing the earth, with mighty power disclosed the heavens."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-81:6",
        "text": "3. He who hath eyes on all sides round about him, a mouth on all sides, arms and feet on all sides,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-81:7",
        "text": "He, the Sole God, producing earth and heaven, weldeth them, with his arms as wings, together."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-81:8",
        "text": "4. What was the tree, what wood in sooth produced it, from which they fashioned out the earth and heaven?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-81:9",
        "text": "Ye thoughtful men inquire within your spirit whereon he stood when he established all things."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-81:10",
        "text": "5. Nine highest, lowest, sacrificial natures, and these thy mid-most here, O Visvakarman,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-81:11",
        "text": "Teach thou thy friends at sacrifice, O Blessed, and come thyself, exalted, to our worship."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-81:12",
        "text": "6. Bring thou thyself, exalted with oblation, O Visvakarman, Earth and Heaven to worship."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-81:13",
        "text": "Let other men around us live in folly here let us have a rich and liberal patron."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-81:14",
        "text": "7. Let us invoke to-day, to aid our labour, the Lord of Speech, the thought-swift Visvakarman."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-81:15",
        "text": "May he hear kindly all our invocations who gives all bliss for aid, whose works are righteous."
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