चरेद् एवा त्रैहायणाद् अविज्ञातगदा सती । वशां च विद्यान् नारद ब्राह्मणास् तर्ह्य् एष्याः ॥१६॥
cared evā traihāyaṇād avijñātagadā satī | vaśāṃ ca vidyān nārada brāhmaṇās tarhy eṣyāḥ ||16||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
She may go about until ⌊ ā́ ⌋ the space of three years, being of unrecognized (vi-jñā) speech (-gada); should he know the cow, O Nārada, then the Brahmans are to be sought.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)