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"There was no line, no form, no colour, no mark; neither the sun nor the moon; neither day nor night; neither water nor land, nor the skies; neither Meru nor Mandára, nor Kailás; neither gods, nor images, nor any form to worship. Who is there in the inmenseimmense [sic] void (dear) to the Lord? Neither any devotee nor any ascetic nor any Bráhmana; no mountain, nor hill,n othinghill, nothing [sic] animate or inanimate. There was no sacred place, nor Ganges water, nor confluence of seas and rivers, nor any god. There was neither any creation, nor any god nor any man; no Brahmá, nor Visnu nor any receptacle. There was no sacred day nor sacred ceremonies, nor any devotee, nor any* ascetic. There were no holy places, neither Gayá, nor Benares, nor Prayág, nor Mádhava. What is there to discriminate? There was neither heaven nor earth. All was a wide waste of void. The Lords of the ten quarters did not exist, neither the clouds nor the stars. There was neither life, nor death, nor the oppressions of Pluto. The four Vedas did not exist, nor disputations about Çastras. The Lord the creator made a secret Veda. * * * * Making obeisance to the feet of Dharma, Rámái says, hear my words."

This is an emphatic and downright denial of the existence anything before creation i.e., an emphatic and downright denial of the Hindu theory of