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        "n": 1,
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        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
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        "text": "sister projects"
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        "text": "Wikidata item"
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-85:4",
        "text": "1. TRUTH is the base that bears the earth; by Surya are the heavens sustained."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-85:5",
        "text": "By Law the Adityas stand secure, and Soma holds his place in heaven."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-85:6",
        "text": "2. By Soma are the Adityas strong, by Soma mighty is the earth."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-85:7",
        "text": "Thus Soma in the midst of all these constellations hath his place."
      },{
        "n": 8,
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        "text": "3. One thinks, when they have brayed the plant, that he hath drunk the Soma's juice;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
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        "text": "Of him whom Brahmans truly know as Soma no one ever tastes."
      },{
        "n": 10,
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        "text": "4. Soma, secured by sheltering rules, guarded by hymns in Brhati,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
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        "text": "Thou standest listening to the stones none tastes of thee who dwells on earth."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-85:12",
        "text": "5. When they begin to drink thee then, O God, thou swellest out again."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-85:13",
        "text": "Vayu is Soma's guardian God. The Moon is that which shapes the years."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-85:14",
        "text": "6. Raibhi was her dear bridal friend, and Narasamsi led her home."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-85:15",
        "text": "Lovely was Surya's robe: she came to that which Gatha had adorned."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-85:16",
        "text": "7. Thought was the pillow of her couch, sight was the unguent for her eyes:"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-85:17",
        "text": "Her treasury was earth and heaven when Surya went unto her Lord."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-85:18",
        "text": "The bridesmen were the Asvin Pair Agni was leader of the train."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-85:19",
        "text": "9. Soma was he who wooed the maid: the groomsmen were both Asvins, when"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-85:20",
        "text": "The Sun-God Savitar bestowed his willing Surya on her Lord."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-85:21",
        "text": "10. Her spirit was the bridal car; the covering thereof was heaven:"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-85:22",
        "text": "Bright were both Steers that drew it when Surya approached her husband's, home."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-85:23",
        "text": "11. Thy Steers were steady, kept in place by holy verse and Sama-hymn:"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-85:24",
        "text": "All car were thy two chariot wheels: thy path was tremulous in the sky,"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-85:25",
        "text": "12. Clean, as thou wentest, were thy wheels wind, was the axle fastened there."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "RV10-85:26",
        "text": "Surya, proceeding to her Lord, mounted a spirit-fashioned car."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "RV10-85:27",
        "text": "13. The bridal pomp of Surya, which Savitar started, moved along."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "RV10-85:28",
        "text": "In Magha days are oxen slain, in Arjuris they wed the bride."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "RV10-85:29",
        "text": "14. When on your three-wheeled chariot, O Asvins, ye came as wooers unto Surya's bridal,"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "RV10-85:30",
        "text": "Then all the Gods agreed to your proposal Pusan as Son elected you as Fathers."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "RV10-85:31",
        "text": "15. O ye Two Lords of lustre, then when ye to Surya's wooing came,"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "RV10-85:32",
        "text": "Where was one chariot wheel of yours? Where stood ye for die Sire's command?"
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "RV10-85:33",
        "text": "16. The Brahmans, by their seasons, know, O Surya, those two wheels of thine:"
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "RV10-85:34",
        "text": "One kept concealed, those only who are skilled in highest truths have learned."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "RV10-85:35",
        "text": "17. To Surya and the Deities, to Mitra and to Varuna."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "RV10-85:36",
        "text": "Who know aright the thing that is, this adoration have I paid."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "RV10-85:37",
        "text": "18. By their own power these Twain in close succession move;"
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "RV10-85:38",
        "text": "They go as playing children round the sacrifice."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "RV10-85:39",
        "text": "One of the Pair beholdeth all existing things; the other ordereth seasons and is born again."
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "RV10-85:40",
        "text": "19. He, born afresh, is new and new for ever ensign of days he goes before the Mornings"
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "RV10-85:41",
        "text": "Coming, he orders f6r the Gods their portion. The Moon prolongs the days of our existence."
      },{
        "n": 42,
        "refId": "RV10-85:42",
        "text": "20. Mount this, all-shaped, gold-hued, with strong wheels, fashioned of Kimsuka and Salmali, light-rolling,"
      },{
        "n": 43,
        "refId": "RV10-85:43",
        "text": "Bound for the world of life immortal, Surya: make for thy lord a happy bridal journey."
      },{
        "n": 44,
        "refId": "RV10-85:44",
        "text": "21. Rise up from hence: this maiden hath a husband. I laud Visvavasu with hymns and homage."
      },{
        "n": 45,
        "refId": "RV10-85:45",
        "text": "Seek in her father's home another fair one, and find the portion from of old assigned thee."
      },{
        "n": 46,
        "refId": "RV10-85:46",
        "text": "22. Rise up from hence, Visvavasu: with reverence we worship thee."
      },{
        "n": 47,
        "refId": "RV10-85:47",
        "text": "Seek thou another willing maid, and with her husband leave the bride."
      },{
        "n": 48,
        "refId": "RV10-85:48",
        "text": "23. Straight in direction be the paths, and thornless, whereon our fellows travel to the wooing."
      },{
        "n": 49,
        "refId": "RV10-85:49",
        "text": "Let Aryaman and Bhaga lead us: perfect, O Gods, the union of the wife and husband."
      },{
        "n": 50,
        "refId": "RV10-85:50",
        "text": "24. Now from the noose of Varuna I free thee, wherewith Most Blessed Savitar hath bound thee."
      },{
        "n": 51,
        "refId": "RV10-85:51",
        "text": "In Law's seat, to the world of virtuous action, I give thee up uninjured with thy consort."
      },{
        "n": 52,
        "refId": "RV10-85:52",
        "text": "25. Hence, and not thence, I send these free. I make thee softly fettered there."
      },{
        "n": 53,
        "refId": "RV10-85:53",
        "text": "That, Bounteous Indra, she may live blest in her fortune and her sons."
      },{
        "n": 54,
        "refId": "RV10-85:54",
        "text": "26. Let Pusan take thy hand and hence conduct thee; may the two Asvins on their car transport thee."
      },{
        "n": 55,
        "refId": "RV10-85:55",
        "text": "Go to the house to be the household's mistress and speak as lady ito thy gathered people."
      },{
        "n": 56,
        "refId": "RV10-85:56",
        "text": "27. Happy be thou and prosper with thy children here: be vigilant to rule thy household in this home."
      },{
        "n": 57,
        "refId": "RV10-85:57",
        "text": "Closely unite thy body with this; man, thy lord. So shall ye, full of years, address your company."
      },{
        "n": 58,
        "refId": "RV10-85:58",
        "text": "28. Her hue is blue and red: the fiend who clingeth close is driven off."
      },{
        "n": 59,
        "refId": "RV10-85:59",
        "text": "Well thrive the kinsmen of this bride the husband is bound fast in bonds."
      },{
        "n": 60,
        "refId": "RV10-85:60",
        "text": "29. Give thou the woollen robe away: deal treasure to the Brahman priests."
      },{
        "n": 61,
        "refId": "RV10-85:61",
        "text": "This female fiend hath got her feet, and as a wife attends her lord."
      },{
        "n": 62,
        "refId": "RV10-85:62",
        "text": "30. Unlovely is his body when it glistens with this wicked fiend,"
      },{
        "n": 63,
        "refId": "RV10-85:63",
        "text": "What time the husband wraps about his limbs the garment of his wife."
      },{
        "n": 64,
        "refId": "RV10-85:64",
        "text": "31. Consumptions, from her people, which follow the bride's resplendent train,-"
      },{
        "n": 65,
        "refId": "RV10-85:65",
        "text": "These let the Holy Gods again bear to the place from which they came."
      },{
        "n": 66,
        "refId": "RV10-85:66",
        "text": "32. Let not the highway thieves who lie in ambush find the wedded pair."
      },{
        "n": 67,
        "refId": "RV10-85:67",
        "text": "By pleasant ways let them escape the danger, and let foes depart."
      },{
        "n": 68,
        "refId": "RV10-85:68",
        "text": "33. Signs of good fortune mark the bride come all of you and look at her."
      },{
        "n": 69,
        "refId": "RV10-85:69",
        "text": "Wish her prosperity, and then return unto your homes again."
      },{
        "n": 70,
        "refId": "RV10-85:70",
        "text": "34. Pungent is this, and bitter this, filled, as it were, with arrow-barbs, Empoisoned and not fit for use."
      },{
        "n": 71,
        "refId": "RV10-85:71",
        "text": "The Brahman who knows Surya well deserves the garment of the bride."
      },{
        "n": 72,
        "refId": "RV10-85:72",
        "text": "35. The fringe, the cloth that decks her head, and then the triply parted robe,-"
      },{
        "n": 73,
        "refId": "RV10-85:73",
        "text": "Behold the hues which Surya wears these doth the Brahman purify."
      },{
        "n": 74,
        "refId": "RV10-85:74",
        "text": "36. I take thy hand in mine for happy fortune that thou mayst reach old age with me thy husband."
      },{
        "n": 75,
        "refId": "RV10-85:75",
        "text": "Gods, Aryaman, Bhaga, Savitar, Purandhi, have given thee to be my household's mistress."
      },{
        "n": 76,
        "refId": "RV10-85:76",
        "text": "37. O Pusan, send her on as most auspicious, her who shall be the sharer of my pleasures;"
      },{
        "n": 77,
        "refId": "RV10-85:77",
        "text": "Her who shall twine her loving arms about me, and welcome all my love and mine embraces."
      },{
        "n": 78,
        "refId": "RV10-85:78",
        "text": "38. For thee, with bridal train, they, first, escorted Surya to her home."
      },{
        "n": 79,
        "refId": "RV10-85:79",
        "text": "Give to the husband in return, Agni, the wife with progeny."
      },{
        "n": 80,
        "refId": "RV10-85:80",
        "text": "39. Agni hath given the bride again with splendour and with ample life."
      },{
        "n": 81,
        "refId": "RV10-85:81",
        "text": "Long lived be he who is her lord; a hundred autumns let him live."
      },{
        "n": 82,
        "refId": "RV10-85:82",
        "text": "Agni was thy third husband: now one born of woman is thy fourth."
      },{
        "n": 83,
        "refId": "RV10-85:83",
        "text": "41. Soma to the Gandharva, and to Agni the Gandharva gave:"
      },{
        "n": 84,
        "refId": "RV10-85:84",
        "text": "And Agni hath bestowed on me riches and sons and this my spouse."
      },{
        "n": 85,
        "refId": "RV10-85:85",
        "text": "42. Be ye not parted; dwell ye here reach the full time of human life."
      },{
        "n": 86,
        "refId": "RV10-85:86",
        "text": "With sons and grandsons sport and play, rejoicing in your own abode."
      },{
        "n": 87,
        "refId": "RV10-85:87",
        "text": "43. So may Prajapati bring children forth to us; may Aryaman adorn us till old age come nigh."
      },{
        "n": 88,
        "refId": "RV10-85:88",
        "text": "Not inauspicious enter thou thy husband's house: bring blessing to our bipeds and our quadrupeds."
      },{
        "n": 89,
        "refId": "RV10-85:89",
        "text": "44. Not evil-eyed, no slayer of thy husband, bring weal to cattle, radiant, gentlehearted;"
      },{
        "n": 90,
        "refId": "RV10-85:90",
        "text": "Loving the Gods, delightful, bearing heroes, bring blessing to our quadrupeds and bipeds."
      },{
        "n": 91,
        "refId": "RV10-85:91",
        "text": "45. O Bounteous Indra, make this bride blest in her sons and fortunate."
      },{
        "n": 92,
        "refId": "RV10-85:92",
        "text": "Vouchsafe to her ten sons, and make her husband the eleventh man."
      },{
        "n": 93,
        "refId": "RV10-85:93",
        "text": "46. Over thy husband's father and thy husband's mother bear full sway."
      },{
        "n": 94,
        "refId": "RV10-85:94",
        "text": "Over the sister of thy lord, over his brothers rule supreme."
      },{
        "n": 95,
        "refId": "RV10-85:95",
        "text": "47. So may the Universal Gods, so may the Waters join our hearts."
      },{
        "n": 96,
        "refId": "RV10-85:96",
        "text": "May Matarisvan, Dhatar, and Destri together bind us close."
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