Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·10·10.129·10.129.4

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 10.129.4

RV 10.129.4

कामस् तद् अग्रे सम् अवर्तताधि मनसो रेतः प्रथमं यद् आसीत् । सतो बन्धुम् असति निर् अविन्दन् हृदि प्रतीष्या कवयो मनीषा ॥

kāmas tad agre sam avartatādhi manaso retaḥ prathamaṃ yad āsīt | sato bandhum asati nir avindan hṛdi pratīṣyā kavayo manīṣā ||

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

Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit. Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

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Cite as: Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 10.129.4, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/RV/10.129.4), 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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