Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 10 — Chapter 129

RV 10 129.1

नासद् आसीन् नो सद् आसीत् तदानीꣳ नासीद् रजो नो व्योमा परो यत् । किम् आवरीवः कुह कस्य शर्मन्न् अम्भः किम् आसीद् गहनꣳ गभीरम्

nāsad āsīn no sad āsīt tadānīṁ nāsīd rajo no vyomā paro yat | kim āvarīvaḥ kuha kasya śarmann ambhaḥ kim āsīd gahanaṁ gabhīram

There was not the non-existent nor the existent then; there was not the airy space nor the heaven beyond. What stirred? where? in whose keeping? Was there water, deep and unfathomable?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 10 129.2

न मृत्युर् आसीद् अमृतꣳ न तर्हि न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत् प्रकेतः । आनीद् अवातꣳ स्वधया तद् एकꣳ तस्माद् धान्यन् न परः किꣳ चनास

na mṛtyur āsīd amṛtaṁ na tarhi na rātryā ahna āsīt praketaḥ | ānīd avātaṁ svadhayā tad ekaṁ tasmād dhānyan na paraḥ kiṁ canāsa

There was neither death nor immortality then; there was no distinguishing sign of night or of day. That One breathed windlessly by its own power; apart from that there was nothing else beyond.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 10 129.3

तम आसीत् तमसा गूऴ्हम् अग्रे ऽप्रकेतꣳ सलिलꣳ सर्वम् आ इदम् । तुच्छ्येनाभ्व् अपिहितꣳ यद् आसीत् तपसस् तन् महिनाजायतैकम्

tama āsīt tamasā gūḻham agre 'praketaṁ salilaṁ sarvam ā idam | tucchyenābhv apihitaṁ yad āsīt tapasas tan mahinājāyataikam

Darkness there was, hidden by darkness in the beginning; all this was an indistinguishable flood. The becoming-thing that was covered over by the void — that One was born by the greatness of heat (tapas).

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 10 129.4

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

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

Desire came over that in the beginning, (desire) which was the first seed of mind. The seers, searching within the heart with insight, found the bond of what is in what is not.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 10 129.5

तिरश्चीनो विततो रश्मिर् एषाम् अधः स्विद् आसी३द् उपरि स्विद् आसी३त् । रेतोधा आसन् महिमान आसन् स्वधा अवस्तात् प्रयतिः परस्तात्

tiraścīno vitato raśmir eṣām adhaḥ svid āsī3d upari svid āsī3t | retodhā āsan mahimāna āsan svadhā avastāt prayatiḥ parastāt

A cord was stretched across them: was there a below, or was there an above? There were seed-placers, there were greatnesses: self-power below, forward-impulse above.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 10 129.6

को अद्धा वेद क इह प्र वोचत् कुत आजाता कुत इयꣳ विसृष्टिः । अर्वाग् देवा अस्य विसर्जनेनाथा को वेद यत आबभूव

ko addhā veda ka iha pra vocat kuta ājātā kuta iyaṁ visṛṣṭiḥ | arvāg devā asya visarjanenāthā ko veda yata ābabhūva

Who truly knows? Who here can declare it? Whence was it born, whence this outpouring (of creation)? The gods are on this side of its emitting — so who knows from what it came to be?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 10 129.7

इयꣳ विसृष्टिर् यत आबभूव यदि वा दधे यदि वा न । यो अस्याध्यक्षः परमे व्योमन् सो अङ्ग वेद यदि वा न वेद

iyaṁ visṛṣṭir yata ābabhūva yadi vā dadhe yadi vā na | yo asyādhyakṣaḥ parame vyoman so aṅga veda yadi vā na veda

This outpouring — whence it came to be, whether he established it or whether not: he who is its overseer in the highest heaven, he indeed knows — or he does not know.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition