Add visible English prose translations for all 20 verses

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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">स्वातन्त्र्ययज्ञे स्वयमाजुहाव ॥ १ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">The great hero Vinayak, renowned in the world through devotion to his nation, having shaken the British force with the fire of revolution, offered himself as an oblation in the sacrifice for independence.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">स एव तेन प्रथमः प्रकीर्तितः ॥ २ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">After the eighteenth century had passed, in the year fifty-seven (1857), the war of the Indian nation occurred. It was he who first proclaimed it the First War of Independence.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">परं पुनस्तैः निगलेन बद्धः ॥ ३ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">Captured by the English inside a ship, the great hero swiftly leaped into the ocean at Marseilles to free himself from bonds. But he was again bound with chains by them.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">मृत्युर्हि मे मातृभुवे वरं स्यात् ॥ ४ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">He to whom the punishment of two lifetimes was pronounced spoke in court while laughing: "For the motherland, my death should be a boon." He thus proved the Hindu doctrine of reincarnation.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">तथापि धीरः न जहौ स्वराष्ट्रम् ॥ ५ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">Then he was taken to the land of Andaman. In prison, inside the oil-press, he underwent the most terrible pain on his body; yet the steadfast one did not abandon his nation.</p>
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   <span data-line="2" data-start="" data-end="">कारागृहस्य भित्तिषु कण्टकैः काव्यमालिखत् ॥ ६ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">When he was deprived of even paper and pen, he wrote poetry on the prison walls with thorns.</p>
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   <span data-line="2" data-start="" data-end="">विरहोच्छ्वास-काव्यं सः मनसा एव अचिन्तयत् ॥ ७ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">He conceived the poem Kamalā, the great work Gomāntak and the poem Virahochhvās entirely by mind alone, committing them to memory.</p>
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   <span data-line="2" data-start="" data-end="">तद् गीतं देशभक्तानां हृदयेषु प्रकम्पते ॥ ८ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">That anguished song where his soul aches toward the ocean reverberates in the hearts of patriots.</p>
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   <span data-line="2" data-start="" data-end="">रचयित्वा स सर्वेषां जनानम् तेज ऐन्धयत् ॥ ९ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">Having composed the hymn "O Great Goddess of Independence, victory be unto you," he ignited the spirit of all people.</p>
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   <span data-line="2" data-start="" data-end="">काव्यरूपेण तेनैव महाराष्ट्रं प्रबोधितम् ॥ १० ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">Even though well-bound by chains, his voice was never blunted. Through poetry alone, he awakened Maharashtra.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">दृष्ट्वा स शुद्धिकरणे निरतो बभूव ॥ ११ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">Language is the heart of a nation, its life-force. Without it, man is a slave. Seeing his mother tongue polluted by foreign words, he became engaged in its purification.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">संस्कृत्य नूतनपदानि समुच्चकार ॥ १२ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">However many corrupted words of English, Persian and Arabic origin existed, he abandoned them and, through the supreme action of Sanskrit roots, refined and created new words.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">शब्दान् इमान् प्रयुयुजे पर-शब्द-नाशैः ॥ १३ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">Television, Martyr, Telephone, Mayor, Movie Theater, Director: he applied these Sanskrit words by destroying their foreign equivalents.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">सर्वत्र राष्ट्र-विदुषां वदने विभाति ॥ १४ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">For the English word "Truce," he created the pure word "Upasandhi." The word "Adyaprayāvat" (up-to-date) shines everywhere in the mouths of the nation's scholars.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">म्लेच्छानि तानि पठन्ति स आत्मघातः ॥ १५ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">When people embrace these new words, their own language is protected. Those who abandon their own words to speak foreign ones commit self-destruction.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">विज्ञानस्य च तर्क-मार्गम् अनुसृत्यासीत् स हिन्दु-प्रभुः ॥ १६ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">The wise one who constantly strived for the destruction of untouchability and the tearing apart of caste discrimination, having abandoned even the methods stated in the Vedas and Āgamas, followed the path of science and logic to forge new thinking. He was the leader of Hindus.</p>
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   <span data-line="2" data-start="" data-end="">सर्व-भूत-हिते रतः इति वचो गीता-सु-शास्त्रोद्भवम् मत्वा राष्ट्र-समुन्नतिं स हि सदा धर्मं नवीनं व्यधात् ॥ १७ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">Cow protection was considered by that awakened intellect not merely for the animal but for the welfare of all beings. Keeping in mind the Gītā's dictum "engaged in the welfare of all living beings," he ordained a new duty toward the elevation of the nation.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">शत्रूणां वध-कर्मणि प्र-रमताम् हिंसा न दोषाय वै ॥ १८ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">The Gītā's battle-awakening is accepted as the ethics of warfare. Grief should never be felt over things fallen in the past. Just as Arjuna trembled in the great battle, so too in warrior duty: for those engaged in slaying enemies, violence is not a fault.</p>
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   <span data-line="4" data-start="" data-end="">तेषाम् एव हि राष्ट्रम् एतद् इति वै सिद्धान्तम् अस्थापयत् ॥ १९ ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">Beyond the banks of the Indus to the mountain peaks, wherever the perimeter of this land extends, he alone is always recognized as Hindu. Those for whom this land is both holy land and fatherland: this is their nation. He established this doctrine.</p>
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   <span data-line="2" data-start="" data-end="">तस्येयं प्र-विचार-सन्ततिर् अहो विज्ञात-तत्त्वा भुवि काव्ये शास्त्र-वचःसु नित्यम् अमरा जाज्वल्यमाना भवेत् ॥ २० ॥</span>
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+<p class="prose-text">Ever worshipping the Goddess adorned with weapons, he prepared a youth army for the supreme protection of the nation. May this lineage of great thoughts, with known principles, blaze immortally in poetry and scripture upon the earth.</p>
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