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    "chapter": 98
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    "n": 98,
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-98:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-98:2",
        "text": "1. COME, be thou Mitra, Varuna, or Pusan, come, O Brhaspati, to mine oblation:"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-98:3",
        "text": "With Maruts, Vasus, or Adityas, make thou Parjanya pour for Santanu his rain-drops."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-98:4",
        "text": "2. The God, intelligent, the speedy envoy whom thou hast sent hath come to me, Devapi:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-98:5",
        "text": "Address thyself to me and turn thee hither within thy lips will I put brilliant language."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-98:6",
        "text": "3. Within my mouth, Brhaspati, deposit speech lucid, vigorous, and free from weakness,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-98:7",
        "text": "Thereby to win for Santanu the rain-fall. The meath-rich drop from heaven hath passed within it."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-98:8",
        "text": "4. Let the sweet drops descend on us, O Indra: give us enough to lade a thousand wagons."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-98:9",
        "text": "Sit to thy Hotar task; pay worship duly, and serve the Gods, Devapi, with oblation."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-98:10",
        "text": "5. Knowing the God's good-will, Devapi, Rsi, the son of Rstisena, sate as Hotar."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-98:11",
        "text": "He hath brought down from heaven's most lofty summit the ocean of the rain, celestial waters."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-98:12",
        "text": "6. Gathered together in that highest ocean, the waters stood by deities obstructed."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-98:13",
        "text": "They hurried down set free by Arstisena, in gaping clefts, urged onward by Devapi."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-98:14",
        "text": "7. When as chief priest for Santanu, Devapi, chosen for Hotar's duty, prayed beseeching,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-98:15",
        "text": "Graciously pleased Brhaspati vouchsafed him a voice that reached the Gods and won the waters."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-98:16",
        "text": "8. O Agni whom Devapi Arstisena, the mortal man, hath kindled in his glory,"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-98:17",
        "text": "Joying in him with all the Gods together, urge on the sender of the rain, Parjanya."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-98:18",
        "text": "9. All ancient Rsis with their songs approached thee, even thee, O Much-invoked, at sacrifices."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-98:19",
        "text": "We have provided wagon-loads in thousands: come to the solemn rite, Lord of Red Horses."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-98:20",
        "text": "10. The wagon-loads, the nine-and-ninety thousand, these have been offered up to thee, O Agni."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-98:21",
        "text": "Hero, with these increase thy many bodies, and, stimulated, send us rain from heaven."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-98:22",
        "text": "11. Give thou these ninety thousand loads, O Agni, to Indra, to the Bull, to be his portion."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-98:23",
        "text": "Knowing the paths which Deities duly travel, set mid the Gods in heaven Aulana also."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-98:24",
        "text": "12. O Agni, drive afar our foes, our troubles chase malady away and wicked demons."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-98:25",
        "text": "From this air-ocean, from the lofty heavens, send down on us a mighty flood of waters."
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