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Rigveda 10.129.02

Rigveda · Mandala 10, Sukta 129 · Verse 10.129.2

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Rishi (Seer)
Devatā (Deity)
Chandas (Meter)
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Sanskrit Original

न मृ॒त्युरा॑सीद॒मृतं॒ न तर्हि॒ न रात्र्या॒ अह्न॑ आसीत्प्रके॒तः । आनी॑दवा॒तं स्व॒धया॒ तदेकं॒ तस्मा॑द्धा॒न्यन्न प॒रः किं च॒नास॑

na mṛtyurāsīdamṛtaṃ na tarhi na rātryā ahna āsītpraketaḥ ānīdavātaṃ svadhayā tadekaṃ tasmāddhānyanna paraḥ kiṃ canāsa

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Death did not exist nor immortality; night and day were not. There was only the One breathed by heat; who knows whence it sprang?

📖 Book ReferenceWisdomLibRig Veda English TranslationSource ↗

Death was not nor at that period immortality, there was no indication of day, of night; That Oneunbreathed upon breathed of his own strength, other than That there was nothing else whatever.

📖 Book ReferenceRalph T.H. GriffithThe Rig Veda, 1896Source ↗

Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever.