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- Only He who is its overseer in highest heaven knows, (en)
- Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation? (en)
- That One by force of heat came into being;
Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it? (en)
- Gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe. (en)
- No distinguishing sign of night nor of day; (en)
- Only He knows, or perhaps He does not know. (en)
- Perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not; (en)
- That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse; (en)
- That which, becoming, by the void was covered; (en)
- Without distinctive marks, this all was water; (en)
- Who then knows whence it has arisen?
Whether God's will created it, or whether He was mute; (en)
- Other than that there was nothing beyond.
Darkness there was at first, by darkness hidden; (en)
- Nasadiya Sukta :
There was neither non-existence nor existence then; (en)
- What stirred? Where? In whose protection?
There was neither death nor immortality then; (en)
- Neither the realm of space, nor the sky which is beyond; (en)
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