 Who knows for certain ? Who shall here declare it ? Whence was it born, and whence came this creation ? The gods were born after this world's creation: Then who can know from whence it has arisen?  A History of SANSKRIT LITERATURE - Page 149by ARTHUR A MACDONELL - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1916 - 394 pages
...empty space that by the void was hidden, That One was by the heat engendered. This world-creation, whence it has arisen, Or whether it has been produced...surveys it in the highest heaven, He only knows — or e'en He does not know it. Panini. The oldest extant Sanskrit grammar, the wonderful work composed in... | |
 | Abinas Chandra Das - Civilization, Aryan - 1925 - 616 pages
...earliest seed of spirit. The bond of being in non-being sages Discovered searching in their hearls with wisdom. " Who knows It truly ? Who can here declare...surveys it in the highest heaven, He only knows, or e'en He does not know it." This song of Creation is probably the grandest of all similar songs to be... | |
 | Kenneth James Saunders - Bhagavadgītā - 1928 - 278 pages
...it has arisen? None knoweth whence creation has arisen; And whether he has or has not produced it; He who surveys it in the highest heaven, He only knows, or haply he may know not. Rig Veda X, 129. (Translated in the original meter by AA Macdonell.) This great... | |
 | Robert C. Neville - Religion - 1982 - 302 pages
...has arisen? 7. None knoweth whence creation has arisen; And whether he has or has not produced it: He who surveys it in the highest heaven. He only knows, or haply he may not. Hymn x. 129, A Source Book in Indian Philosophy, ed. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and... | |
 | Gray L. Dorsey - Law - 144 pages
...has arisen? 7. None knoweth whence creation has arisen; And whether he has or has not produced it: He who surveys it in the highest heaven. He only knows, or haply he may know not.16 The monotheism of the early Vedic hymns turned to philosophical monism in... | |
 | Klaus K. Klostermaier - Religion - 1989 - 670 pages
...has arisen? None can know from whence creation has arisen and whether he has or has not produced it: he who surveys it in the highest heaven, he only knows, or, perhaps. 8 Several key words of Vedic religion are employed here: tapas, heat, the power of the yogi,... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - Philosophy - 1990 - 552 pages
...unfathomable water? None knowcth whence creation has arisen; And whether he has or has not produced it; He who surveys it in the highest heaven, He only knows, or haply, he may not know. 18. See, eg, CH Long, éd., Alpha, The Myths of Creation (New York: Rraziller,... | |
 | Hans Torwesten, Loly Rosset - Philosophy - 1994 - 244 pages
...with this verse: None knoweth whence creation has arisen; And whether he has or has not produced it: He who surveys it in the highest heaven, He only knows, or haply he may know not. (Ri.X.129) This last question occurs not only in connection with the earliest... | |
 | Adwaita P. Ganguly - Bhagavadgītā - 1996 - 80 pages
...it has arisen? 7. None knoweth where creation has arisen; And whether he has or has not produced it: He who surveys it in the highest heaven, He only knows, or haply he may know not (x. 129). The Bible never asks, as the Rig Vedic Song of creation did, who can... | |
 | Jack Goody - Cooking - 1998 - 328 pages
...unfathomable water? None knoweth whence creation has arisen; And whether he has or has not produced it: He who surveys it in the highest heaven, He only knows, or haply may know not. (Rig Veda, Book X, hymn 129, translated Macdonell 1922: 18) Max Muller called this... | |
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