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" 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. "
The Sacred Books of the East Described and Examined: Hindu series - Page 106
1898
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The Hymns of the Atharvaveda, Volume 1

Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith - 1895 - 548 pages
...than these art thou, and great for ever. Kama, to thee, to thee I offer worship. 19 First before all: 'Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit' (Tligveda X. 129. 4). Similarly, in Greek mythology Eros or Love is said to have been the first of...
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Hinduism, Ancient and Modern: As Taught in Original Sources and Illustrated ...

Baij Nath (Lala.) - 1905 - 394 pages
...nothing whatsoever. Darkness was there at first, concealed in darkness — all this was indiscriminate chaos All that existed then was void and formless. By the great power of thought that unit was born. Who verily knows and who can declare whence it wag born and whence came...
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The Rig-Veda and Vedic Religion: With Readings from the Vedas

A. C. Clayton - 1913 - 334 pages
...nor was there aught imj mortal : no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That One Thing,' breathless, breathed by its own nature : apart from...: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit. *t K 4. Thereafter rose Desire * in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit. - **...
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Redemption, Hindu and Christian

Sydney Cave - 1919 - 284 pages
...then, nor was there ought 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. 3. Darkness was there: at first, concealed in darkness, this All was indiscriminated chaos. All that existed then...
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Mythopoesis: Mythic Patterns in the Literary Classics

Harry Slochower - 1970 - 376 pages
...non-existent, nor existent . . . Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal . . . That one Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever. ... (X, 129) Desire, individualism and action arise in the Ages of Treta and Dvapara, when virtue declines...
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The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science

M. Conrad Hyers - 1984 - 220 pages
...in which all was darkness. "At first concealed in darkness, this all was undiscriminated chaos. AH that existed then was void and formless. By the great power of warmth was bom that One. . . . That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature, apart from it was nothing...
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The Heart of Religion

P. D. Mehta - 1987 - 452 pages
...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. Darkness there was : at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos. All that existed...
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Neo-Hindu Views of Christianity

Arvind Sharma - 1988 - 236 pages
...misunderstanding they might convey. The third stanza of the Hymn of Creation translates as follows: Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness,...formless: by the great power of warmth was born that unit.51 The raw data of this stanza could easily have been subjected to the same 48 The Arya Samaj...
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A World Theology: The Central Spiritual Reality of Humankind

N. Ross Reat, Edmund F. Perry - 1991 - 336 pages
...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. (Rg 10. 129. 1-2) Eventually, the cosmogonie monism expressed incipiently here was to have considerable...
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Comparative Religion

Kedar Nath Tiwari - 1983 - 252 pages
...then, nor was there aught immortal : no sign was there, the day's and night's divide. That one thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature : apart from it was nothing whatsoever. Darkness there was : at first concealed in darkness, this all was indiscriminated chaos. All that existed...
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