A History of Sanskrit Literature c8.84

c8.84

Two other cosmogonic poems explain the origin of the world philosophically as the evolution of the existent (*sat*) from the non-existent (*asat*). In the somewhat confused account given in one of them (x. 72), three stages of creation may be distinguished : first the world is produced, then the gods, and lastly the sun. The theory of evolution is here still combined with that of creation :—