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The Puranic Account of the Creation - W J Wilkins |
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Before passing on to the inferior deities, an account of the creation will be given. It is not at all easy to make out a consistent one from the Hindu scriptures, because the imagination of the writers seems to have run wild on this subject; not having any authority, each writer has written what seemed good to himself. As in the accounts of the deities, the germs are found in the older books of what is told at considerable length in the more recent. The following hymn from the Rig-Veda describes the primal condition of things before the creative power of the Deity was exercised: |
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"There was neither aught nor naught, nor air, nor sky beyond. What covered all? Where rested all? In watery gulf profound? Nor death was then, nor deathlessness, nor change of night and day. The One breathed calmly, self-sustained; nought else beyond it lay. |
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© `Hindu Mythology’ by W J Wilkins, published (2001) by Rupa & Co., 7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 110 002. |
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