Part 2: Translation of Ṛg-veda 10.129, the “Hymn of Creation” Translation Notes (continued) RV 10.129.2a: ná mṛtyúr āsīd amṛ́taṃ ná tárhi, “There was not death nor life (“non-death”) then.” The word amṛta commonly means “immortality,” and most translators have translated it as such; for example: “There was not death nor immortality then.” Coomaraswamy (1933), however, … Continue reading Creation Stories: The Cosmogony Account from the Vedas