नासदीय सूत्र का अंग्रेजी अनुवाद

Suktā of creation: Nāsādīya suktā

129th hymn of the 10th mandala of the Rigveda.

Speculation of origin of universe.

नासदासींनॊसदासीत्तदानीं नासीद्रजॊ नॊ व्यॊमापरॊ यत् ।
किमावरीव: कुहकस्यशर्मन्नभ: किमासीद्गहनं गभीरम् ॥१॥

न मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हि न रात्र्या।आन्ह।आसीत् प्रकॆत:।
आनीदवातं स्वधया तदॆकं तस्माद्धान्यन्नपर: किंचनास ॥

२॥

तम।आअसीत्तमसा गूह्ळमग्रॆ प्रकॆतं सलिलं सर्वमा।इदम् ।
तुच्छॆनाभ्वपिहितं यदासीत्तपसस्तन्महिना जायतैकम् ॥३॥

कामस्तदग्रॆ समवर्तताधि मनसॊ रॆत: प्रथमं यदासीत् ।
सतॊबन्धुमसति निरविन्दन्हृदि प्रतीष्या कवयॊ मनीषा ॥४॥

तिरश्चीनॊ विततॊ रश्मीरॆषामध: स्विदासी ३ दुपरिस्विदासीत् ।
रॆतॊधा।आसन्महिमान् ।आसन्त्स्वधा ।आवस्तात् प्रयति: परस्तात् ॥५॥

तिरश्चीनॊ विततॊ रश्मीरॆषामध: स्विदासी ३ दुपरिस्विदासीत् ।
रॆतॊधा।आसन्महिमान् ।आसन्त्स्वधा ।आवस्तात् प्रयति: परस्तात् ॥५॥

कॊ ।आद्धा वॆद क‌।इह प्रवॊचत् कुत ।आअजाता कुत ।इयं विसृष्टि: ।
अर्वाग्दॆवा ।आस्य विसर्जनॆनाथाकॊ वॆद यत ।आबभूव ॥६॥

इयं विसृष्टिर्यत ।आबभूव यदि वा दधॆ यदि वा न ।
यॊ ।आस्याध्यक्ष: परमॆ व्यॊमन्त्सॊ आंग वॆद यदि वा न वॆद ॥७॥

Before creation nothingness was not, nor existence lived, There was no breath, nor the paradise constructed beyond the skies. What was hidden and enclosed? Where was all the creation and in whose protection it remained ? What was the depth of cosmic water which was yet to born ? What was it all ? What was it all about ? 

Darkness there was and all existed in the dark void. There was only cosmic water which was dark and unillumined. Arrived from it, One who was nothing and One who created everything. Thus came the vital force, the power of heat which prevailed in each fragment. 

At the onset, He enchanted a desire - that was the primal seed, born of the mind. The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom know that which is kin to that which is not. The seminal powers made the mighty forces, free action was here and strength of impulse went upwards in the skies.

The cords of the high arm were spread. what was above it then, and what below it?

Later came the demigods and their world.
What to know about the place where the beginning took place and what to know about whence it was created? 

Whence all creation had its origin,

he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,he, who surveys it all from highest heaven,he knows - or maybe even he does not know.