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    "chapter": 87
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  "data": {
    "n": 87,
    "bookSlug": "rig-veda-book-10",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-87:1",
        "text": "translated by"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-87:2",
        "text": "1. I BALM with oil the mighty Raksas-slayer; to the most famous Friend I come for shelter"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-87:3",
        "text": "Enkindled, sharpened by our rites, may Agni protect us in the day and night from evil."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-87:4",
        "text": "2. O Jatavedas with the teeth of iron, enkindled with thy flame attack the demons."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-87:5",
        "text": "Seize with thy longue the foolish gods' adorers: rend, put within thy mouth the raw-flesh caters."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-87:6",
        "text": "3. Apply thy teeth, the upper and the lower, thou who hast both, enkindled and destroying."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-87:7",
        "text": "Roam also in the air, O King, around us, and with thy jaws assail the wicked spirits."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-87:8",
        "text": "4. Bending thy shafts through sacrifices, Agni, whetting their points with song as if with whetstones,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-87:9",
        "text": "Pierce to the heart therewith the Yatudhanas, and break their arms uplifted to attack thee."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-87:10",
        "text": "5. Pierce through the Yatudhana's skin, O Agni; let the destroying dart with fire consume him."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-87:11",
        "text": "Rend his joints, Jatavedas, let the cater of flesh, flesh-seeking, track his mangled body."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-87:12",
        "text": "6. Where now thou seest Agni Jatavedas, one of these demons standing still or roaming,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-87:13",
        "text": "Or flying on those paths in air's mid region, sharpen the shaft and as an archer pierce him."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-87:14",
        "text": "7. Tear from the evil spirit, Jatavedas, what he hath seized and with his spears hath captured."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-87:15",
        "text": "Blazing before him strike him down, O Agni; let spotted carrion-eating kites devour him."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-87:16",
        "text": "8. Here tell this forth, O Agni: whosoever is, he himself, or acteth as, a demon,"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-87:17",
        "text": "Him grasp, O thou Most Youthful, with thy fuel. to the Mati-seer's eye give him as booty."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-87:18",
        "text": "9. With keen glance guard the sacrifice, O Agni: thou Sage, conduct it onward to the Vasus."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-87:19",
        "text": "Let not the fiends, O Man-beholder, harm thee burning against the Raksasas to slay them."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-87:20",
        "text": "10. Look on the fiend mid men, as Man-beholder: rend thou his three extremities in pieces."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-87:21",
        "text": "Demolish with thy flame his ribs, O Agni, the Yatudhana's root destroy thou triply."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-87:22",
        "text": "11. Thrice, Agni, let thy noose surround the demon who with his falsehood injures Holy Order."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-87:23",
        "text": "Loud roaring with thy flame, O Jatavedas, crush him and cast him down before the singer."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-87:24",
        "text": "12. Lead thou the worshipper that eye, O Agni, wherewith thou lookest on the hoof-armed demon."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-87:25",
        "text": "With light celestial in Atharvan's manner burn up the foot who ruins truth with falsehood."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "RV10-87:26",
        "text": "13. Agni, what curse the pair this day have uttered, what heated word the worshippers have spoken,"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "RV10-87:27",
        "text": "Each arrowy taunt sped from the angry spirit,-pierce to the heart therewith the Yatudhanas."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "RV10-87:28",
        "text": "14. With fervent heat exterminate the demons; destroy the fiends with burning flame, O Agni."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "RV10-87:29",
        "text": "Destroy with fire the foolish gods' adorers; blaze and destroy the insatiable monsters."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "RV10-87:30",
        "text": "15. May Gods destroy this day the evil-doer may each hot curse of his return and blast him."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "RV10-87:31",
        "text": "Let arrows pierce the liar in his vitals, and Visva's net enclose the Yatudhana."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "RV10-87:32",
        "text": "16. The fiend who smears himself with flesh of cattle, with flesh of horses and of human bodies,"
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "RV10-87:33",
        "text": "Who steals the milch-cow's milk away, O Agni,-tear off the heads of such with fiery fury."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "RV10-87:34",
        "text": "17. The cow gives milk each year, O Man-regarder: let not the Yatudhana ever taste it."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "RV10-87:35",
        "text": "If one would glut him with the biesting, Agni, pierce with thy flame his vitals as he meets thee."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "RV10-87:36",
        "text": "18. Let the fiends drink the poison of the cattle; may Aditi cast off the evildoers."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "RV10-87:37",
        "text": "May the God Savitar give them up to ruin, and be their share of plants and herbs denied them."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "RV10-87:38",
        "text": "19. Agni, from days of old thou slayest demons: never shall Raksasas in fight o'ercome thee."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "RV10-87:39",
        "text": "Burn up the foolish ones, the flesh-devourers: let none of them escape thine heavenly arrow."
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "RV10-87:40",
        "text": "20. Guard us, O Agni, from above and under, protect us from behind us and before us;"
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "RV10-87:41",
        "text": "And may thy flames, most fierce and never wasting, glowing with fervent heat, consume the sinner."
      },{
        "n": 42,
        "refId": "RV10-87:42",
        "text": "21. From rear, from front, from under, from above us, O King, protect us as a Sage with wisdom."
      },{
        "n": 43,
        "refId": "RV10-87:43",
        "text": "Guard to old age thy friend, O Friend, Eternal: O Agni, as Immortal, guard us mortals."
      },{
        "n": 44,
        "refId": "RV10-87:44",
        "text": "22. We set thee round us as a fort, victorious Agni, thee a Sage,"
      },{
        "n": 45,
        "refId": "RV10-87:45",
        "text": "Of hero lineage, day by day, destroyer of our treacherous foes."
      },{
        "n": 46,
        "refId": "RV10-87:46",
        "text": "23. Burn with thy poison turned against the treacherous brood of Raksasas,"
      },{
        "n": 47,
        "refId": "RV10-87:47",
        "text": "O Agni, with thy sharpened glow, with lances armed with points of flame."
      },{
        "n": 48,
        "refId": "RV10-87:48",
        "text": "24. Burn thou the paired Kimidins, burn, Agni, the Yatudhana pairs."
      },{
        "n": 49,
        "refId": "RV10-87:49",
        "text": "I sharpen thee, Infallible, with hymns. O Sage, be vigilant."
      },{
        "n": 50,
        "refId": "RV10-87:50",
        "text": "25. Shoot forth, O Agni, with thy flame demolish them on every side."
      },{
        "n": 51,
        "refId": "RV10-87:51",
        "text": "Break thou the Yatudhana's strength, the vigour of the Raksasa."
      }
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