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<font size="4">Hymn to Forest-Range</font></h1>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>RIGVEDA</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Mandala X:
Sukta 146</p>

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none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(I)<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:-22.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span><span style='mso-tab-count:2'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>FOREST-Range!
<st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Range</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>Forest</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>!</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ever forward you seem to move!</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Wherefore do you not enquire</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>for a village? Are you not afraid?</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(2)<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Here bellows the bull, there in answer</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>chirps a grasshopper –­</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A musical chord, as it were, playing</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>the glory of the woodland!</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(3)</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>These
seem to be cattle grazing</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>and those are huts for habitation;</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>and at eve-tide there seem to
file</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>out of the forest a caravan of carts.</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(4)</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A call, as though, it is for a straying calf </p>

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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>or perhaps a tree is being cut down,</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page-26<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Or even as we are in the woodland</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>now at
night-fall do we hear a moan trailing?</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(5)</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But the forest slays none indeed;</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>unless there comes an intruder from outside.</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Here you regale yourself with sweet fruits</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>and wander about as you like.</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(6)</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sweet-scented, loaded with natural yields,</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>the Mother of animalkind,</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To Her I raise this hymn of praise!</p>

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