Nasadiya Sukta - Part 02

Sloka 2

Continued from Part 1
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न मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हि न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्प्रकेतः ।
आनीदवातं स्वधया तदेकं तस्माद्धान्यन्न परः किं चनास ॥२॥

na mR^ityurAsIdamR^itaM na tarhi na rAtryA ahna AsItpraketaH |
AnIdavAtaM svadhayA tadekaM tasmAddhAnyanna paraH kiM chanAsa ||2||
      

nA mrtyu asit amrtyum na tarhi.

na ratrya Ahna asit praketah..

Ana(h)i id ava atam svadhya tat ekam

tasmad (?) anya na para kim cha na as

Neither was there death, nor immortality then.

Neither was there any sight of night and day.

Motionless (it was) most definitely/ assuredly. That One (became) an animated/vibrating entity/ consciousness, by its own Self Nature.

There was none other.

Words I have used in the Sandhi Analysis

tarhi - at that time

Ahna - day

praketah - appearence, sight

Anah - to become stopped - Anah-yate

id - definitely, assuredly - often used to emphasize the subject

ava - to animate / to engage in movement, vibration

Atam - Self/ Consciousness/ Conscious-Self/ Self-conscious entity

As you may have  noticed, I prefer Swami Vivekananda's interpretation of 'AnIdavAtam' to the other scholars interpretation as it intuitively makes more sense - although the way I look at it is:
     

AnId - The  Motionless.

ava Atam tad ekam - That One (becomes) an animate / conscious Self

To be continued in Part 3

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Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay (2011)