A History of Sanskrit Literature c8.88

c8.88

*Who knows it truly? who can here declare it?*
*Whence was it born? whence issued this creation?*
*And did the gods appear with its production?*
*But then who knows from whence it has arisen?*

*This world-creation, whence it has arisen,*
*Or whether it has been produced or has not,*
*He who surveys it in the highest heaven,*
*He only knows, or ev'n he does not know it.*