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Rigveda 10.129.4

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 10.129.4

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Sanskrit

10.129.4

kāma̱s tad agre̱ sam a̍varta̱tādhi̱ mana̍so̱ reta̍ḥ pratha̱maṁ yad āsī̍t |
sa̱to bandhu̱m asa̍ti̱ nir a̍vindan hṛ̱di pra̱tīṣyā̍ ka̱vayo̍ manī̱ṣā ||

Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit. Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent.

Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, The Hymns of the Rigveda

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