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by Bible or other Sacred Texts
Translation by Karl Friedrich Geldner (1853 - 1929)

नासदासीन्नो सदासीत्तदानीन्नासीद्रजो नो...
Language: Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) 
नासदासीन्नो सदासीत्तदानीन्नासीद्रजो नो व्योमा परो यत्।
किमावरीवः कुह कस्य शर्मन्नम्भः किमासीद्गहनङ्गभीरम्॥
न मृत्युरासीदमृतन्न तर्हि न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्प्रकेतः।
आनीदवातं स्वधया तदेकन्तस्माद्धान्यन्न परः किञ्चनास॥
तम आसीत्तमसा गूळ्हमग्रेऽप्रकेतं सलिलं सर्वमा इदम्।
तुच्छ्येनाभ्वपिहितं यदासीत्तपसस्तन्महिनाजायतैकम्॥
कामस्तदग्रे समवर्तताधि मनसो रेतः प्रथमं यदासीत् ।
सतो बन्धुमसति निरविन्दन्हृदि प्रतीष्या कवयो मनीषा॥
तिरश्चीनो विततो रश्मिरेषामधः स्विदासी३दुपरि स्विदासी३त्।
रेतोधा आसन्महिमान आसन्त्स्वधा अवस्तात्प्रयतिः परस्तात्॥
को अद्धा वेद क इह प्र वोचत्कुत आजाता कुत इयं विसृष्टिः।
अर्वाग्देवा अस्य विसर्जनेनाथा को वेद यत आबभूव॥
इयं विसृष्टिर्यत आबभूव यदि वा दधे यदि वा न।
यो अस्याध्यक्षः परमे व्योमन्त्सो अङ्ग वेद यदि वा न वेद॥

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Transliteration:

nāsad āsīn no sad āsīt tadānīṁ nāsīd rajo no vyomā paro yat |
kim āvarīvaḥ kuha kasya śarmann ambhaḥ kim āsīd gahanaṁ gabhīram ||
na mr̥tyur āsīd amr̥taṁ na tarhi na rātryā ahna āsīt praketaḥ |
ānīd avātaṁ svadhayā tad ekaṁ tasmāddhānyan na paraḥ kiṁ canāsa |
tama āsīt tamasā gūḷham agre 'praketaṁ salilaṁ sarvam ā idam |
tucchyenābhv apihitaṁ yad āsīt tapasas tan mahinājāyataikam ||
kāmas tad agre sam avartatādhi manaso retaḥ prathamaṁ yad āsīt |
sato bandhum asati nir avindan hr̥di pratīṣyā kavayo manīṣā ||
tiraścīno vitato raśmir eṣām adhaḥ svid āsī3d upari svid āsī3t |
retodhā āsan mahimāna āsan svadhā avastāt prayatiḥ parastāt ||
ko addhā veda ka iha pra vocat kuta ājātā kuta iyaṁ visr̥ṣṭiḥ |
arvāg devā asya visarjanenāthā ko veda yata ābabhūva ||
iyaṁ visr̥ṣṭir yata ābabhūva yadi vā dadhe yadi vā na |
yo asyādhyakṣaḥ parame vyoman so aṅga veda yadi vā na veda ||

Notes:
Line 5, word 4 can also be "gūḍham"
Line 9, word 7, simplified, is "āsīd"
Line 9, word 10, simplified, is "āsīt"
Line 10, word 5: optional Sandhi āsantsvadhā
Line 14, word 5: optional Sandhi vyomantso

Text Authorship:

  • by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Rigveda 10, 129 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934) ; composed by Gustav Holst.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith) , no title
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Karl Friedrich Geldner)


Researcher for this page: Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr

This text was added to the website: 2021-09-24
Line count: 14
Word count: 91

Weder Nichtsein noch Sein war damals;...
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) 
Weder Nichtsein noch Sein war damals; nicht war der Luftraum noch der Himmel
darüber. Was strich hin und her? Wo? In wessen Obhut? Was war das
unergründliche tiefe Wasser?

Weder Tod noch Unsterblichkeit war damals; nicht gab es ein Anzeichen von Tag
und Nacht. Es atmete nach seinem Eigengesetz ohne Windzug dieses Eine. Irgend
ein Anderes als dieses war weiter nicht vorhanden.

Im Anfang war Finsternis in Finsternis versteckt; all dieses war unkenntliche Flut. Das
Lebenskräftige, das von der Leere eingeschlossen war, das Eine wurde durch die
Macht seines heißen Dranges geboren.

Über dieses kam am Anfang das Liebesverlangen, was des Denkens erster Same
war. – Im Herzen forschend machten die Weisen durch Nachdenken das Band des
Seins im Nichtsein ausfindig.

Quer hindurch ward ihre Richtschnur gespannt. Gab es denn ein Unten, gab es denn
ein Oben? Es waren Besamer, es waren Ausdehnungskräfte da. Unterhalb war der
Trieb, oberhalb die Gewährung.

Wer weiß es gewiß, wer kann es hier verkünden, woher sie entstanden, woher diese
Schöpfung kam? Die Götter (kamen) erst nachher durch die Schöpfung dieser (Welt).
Wer weiß es dann, woraus sie sich entwickelt hat?

Woraus diese Schöpfung sich entwickelt hat, ob er sie gemacht hat oder nicht – der
der Aufseher dieser (Welt) im höchsten Himmel ist, der allein weiß es, es sei denn,
daß auch er es nicht weiß.

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Confirmed with Karl Friedrich Geldner, Der Rig-Veda, Aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übersetzt und mit einem laufenden Kommentar versehen, Harvard University Press, 1951.


Text Authorship:

  • by Karl Friedrich Geldner (1853 - 1929) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Rigveda 10, 129
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]


Researcher for this page: Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr

This text was added to the website: 2021-09-24
Line count: 21
Word count: 222

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