 | G.C. Haughton - 412 pages
...created ' the waters, and placed in them a productive seed : 9. ' The seed became an egg bright as gold, blazing ' like the luminary with a thousand beams...and in that ' egg, he was born himself, in the form O/'BRAHMA'I the ' great forefather of all spirits. 10. 'The waters are called nard, because they were... | |
 | Thomas Powel, Sir Isambard Owen, Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore - Wales - 1884 - 542 pages
...thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed ; the seed became an egg bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams ; and in that egg he was born himself, Brahma, the great forefather of all spirits" (i, 7, 8, 9) ; and " He who perseveres in good actions,... | |
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He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed : that seed became an egg bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams ; and in... 
