एक एव पुरा वेद: प्रणव: सर्ववाङ्मय: । देवो नारायणो नान्य एकोऽग्निर्वर्ण एव च ॥ ४८ ॥
eka eva pura vedah pranavah sarva-vanmayah devo narayano nanya eko ’gnir varna eva ca
- ekah
- only one
- eva
- indeed
- pura
- formerly
- vedah
- book of transcendental knowledge
- pranavah
- omkara
- sarva-vak-mayah
- consisting of all Vedic mantras
- devah
- the Lord, God
- narayanah
- only Narayana (was worshipable in the Satya-yuga)
- na anyah
- no other
- ekah agnih
- one division only for agni
- varnah
- order of life
- eva ca
- and certainly.
In the Satya-yuga, the first millennium, all the Vedic mantras were included in one mantra—pranava, the root of all Vedic mantras. In other words, the Atharva Veda alone was the source of all Vedic knowledge. The Supreme Personality of Godhead Narayana was the only worshipable Deity; there was no recommendation for worship of the demigods. Fire was one only, and the only order of life in human society was known as hamsa.