Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·10·10.129·10.129.2

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 10.129.2

RV 10.129.2

न मृत्युर् आसीद् अमृतं न तर्हि न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत् प्रकेतः । आनीद् अवातं स्वधया तद् एकं तस्माद् धान्यन् न परः किं चनास ॥

na mṛtyur āsīd amṛtaṃ na tarhi na rātryā ahna āsīt praketaḥ | ānīd avātaṃ svadhayā tad ekaṃ tasmād dhānyan na paraḥ kiṃ canāsa ||

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

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.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

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Cite as: Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 10.129.2, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/RV/10.129.2), after GRETIL, Rgveda Based on the edition by Th.

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GRETIL 1_veda/1_sam/1_rv/rvh1-10u.htm — Rgveda Based on the edition by Th. Aufrecht: Die Hymnen des Rig Veda, 2nd ed., Bonn 1877, digitized by Barend A. Van Nooten and Gary B. Holland. Revised and converted by Detlef Eichler. (http://www.detlef108.de/Rigveda.htm) THIS GRETIL TEXT FILE IS FOR REFEREN | English: Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896), attached per hymn where the verse count and the names agree.

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