Rigveda 10.129.02
Rigveda · Mandala 10, Sukta 129 · Verse 10.129.2
Vedic Classification
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
Death did not exist nor immortality; night and day were not. There was only the One breathed by heat; who knows whence it sprang?
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.
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.