 | John Muir - Brahmanism - 1863 - 612 pages
...what it arose ? 7. From what source this creation arose and whether [any| one] created it or not,5 — He who in the highest heaven is its ruler, He knows, or He does not know." See Professor Miiller's translation of this remarkable hymn, his enthusiastic appreciation... | |
 | George William Cox - Aryans - 1870 - 488 pages
...whence this creation arose? The gods are subsequent to its production. Who then knows whence it sprung? He who in the highest heaven is its ruler, he knows, or perhaps not even he.' 1 So far as this question was answered at all, it was answered, as Dr. Muir has... | |
 | John Muir - Brahmanism - 1872 - 532 pages
...subsequent "* to the development of this [universe] ; who then knows whence it arose ? 7. From what this creation arose, and whether [any one] made it...— he who in the highest heaven is its ruler, he verily knows, or [even] he does not know." I am not in possession of Sayana's commentary on this hymn... | |
 | Krishna Mohan Banerjea - Christianity and other religions - 1875 - 262 pages
...sprung this creation ? The gods are subsequent to its formation ; who then knows whether any one created it or not. He who in the highest heaven is its ruler, He knows or He does not know."7 (Dr. MwYs Translation — Sanscrit Texts, Vol. iv, p. 4.) There is here a great... | |
 | John Russell Amberley (viscount) - Religions - 1876 - 536 pages
...gods are subsequent to the development of this [universe] ; who then knows whence it arose ] From what this creation arose, and whether [any one] made it...not, he who in the highest heaven is its ruler, he verily knows, or even he does not know." * A later narrative ascribes creation to the god Praj&pati,... | |
 | John Russell Amberley (viscount) - Faith - 1877 - 766 pages
...gods are subsequent to the development of this [universe]; who then knows whence it arose? From what this creation arose, and whether [any one] made it...not, he who in the highest heaven is its ruler, he verily knows, or even he does not know " (OST, vol. v. p. 356.— Rig- Veda, x. 129). A later narrative... | |
 | English poetry - 1879 - 434 pages
...gods are subsequent to the development of this [universe] ; who then knows whence it arose? From what this creation arose; and whether [any one] made it,...— he who in the highest heaven is its ruler, he verily knows, or [even] he does not know." * * I have copied this translation as it stands in the 5th... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke - Brahmanism - 1880 - 124 pages
...then knows from what it arose? 7. From what source this creation arose, and whether (any one) created it or not. He who in the highest heaven is its ruler, He knows, or he does not know. Such was the religion of India in the old time. In the lapse of ages this primitive... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - Bible - 1882 - 370 pages
...140. subsequent to the development of this [universe] ; who then knows whence it arose ? From what this creation arose, and whether [any one] made it...— he who in the highest heaven is its ruler, he verily knows, or [even] he does not know." While it is probably impossible, with any approach to accuracy,... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Mythology - 1887 - 370 pages
...gods are subsequent to the development of this [universe] ; who then knows whence it arose? From what this creation arose, and whether [any one] made it...not, he who in the highest heaven is its ruler, he verily knows, or [even] he does not know." 2 Here there is a Vedic hymn of the origin of things, 1... | |
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From what this creation arose, and whether [any one] made it or not, he who in the highest heaven is its ruler, he verily knows, or [even] he does not know. 
