History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.25

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The creation hymns refer to a stage when there was no generally accepted theory about the origin of the world. But this much is clear that in the most ancient times, at least some of the Vedic sages had arrived at the theory that there was only one Principle or Spirit, though called by various names and that it willed to create the world and created it from itself.