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Inthissituationcognitionisimpossible;onecanonlyaskquestions.Theform
óvartvarisusuallyinterpretedasderivedfromóv{t-(‘Whatwasmoving?’)5.
Macdonellhoweverproposestoderiveitfromóv{-(‘Whatwasconcealing?’)6.
BothinterpretationscanbejustifiedonthebasisoflaterstanzasoftheNdsadtya.
Theanswertothequestionaboutmovementcanbefoundinthesecondstanza,
whichdescribesThatOneasbreathing–somovinginsomeway7.Theanswer
tothequestionaboutconcealmentcanbefoundinthethirdstanzapresentingthe
stateofdarknesshidingthedarkness.Aswillbeseen,outofthesetwopartsof
darkness,thehidingandthehidden,twoaspectsofrealitywillmerge:unmanifestand
manifest.Thisquestioncouldthenrefertotheconcealingorhidingofoneaspectby
anotherinthesenseofacontinuouscreativeactivity,ofacreatiocontinua,which
distinguishestheCreatorfromitscreation8.Intheprecreativestate,theCreatorand
creationcannotbediscerned,soitisalsoimpossibletoanswerwhetherdiscerning
activitytakesplaceornot.Similarly,itisimpossibletoanswerwherethisactivity
couldtakeplace(kúha)andwhocouldconveyandprotectit(kdsyaśdrman).
Thisstateissoundifferentiatedthatitcannotbecomparedeventowater:verse
donlyasksaboutit.Theworddmbhas,usedinthisquestion,isnotusedanywhere
elseintheRV
.Wecansupposethereforethattherecipientisexpectedtoevoke
thecommonÇgvedicconceptualisationofthemostprimevalformoftheworldin
termsofthegeneraldomainofWater9andtorealisethatitcannotbeappliedto
thedescriptionoftheprecreativestateofreality.
Aswewillsee,earliercosmogoniesconceivethestatebeforecreationofthe
worldinasimilarway:asthestateinwhichcognitionisimpossible.Iwilltreat
thentheexpressionnósaddstnnósdddstttadóntm(‘therewasneitherbeing/truth
nornon-being/untruththen’)astheformulaiconeevokingearlierconceptsofthe
primevallackofcognitiveability.
2.2.RV10.129.2
ndm{tyúrdstdamÉtamndtdrhindrótryddhnadsttpraketdh|
óntdavdtdmsvadhdydtddćkamtdsmdddhdnydnndpardhk[mcanósa||
Therewasneitherdeathnorimmortalitythere.Therewasnosignofday
andofnight.ThatOnewasbreathingbreathlesslywithitsownwill.There
wasnothingelsebeyondit.
5
Cf.Edgerton1965,O’Flaherty1981,Renou1956,Elizarenkova1999a,Geldner1957,Michalski
1971(adloci),Ługowski1988:9,Tokarz1985:105–106.InhiscommentaryGeldnerhe
discussestheambiguityofthisform.
6
Macdonell1917:207–212.Cf.alsoLubotsky1997:1344.
7
Cf.Renou1956,Elizarenkova1999a(adloci).
8
Theuseoftheintensiveformconfirmsthisassumption.
9
ThisdomainisespeciallyelaboratedinthemythofIndra’sfightwithV{trawheretheworldin
itsprimevalformisconceivedintermsofflowingwatersfreedbyIndra,seesection14.2.3.
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