स वै नैव रेमे । तस्माद् एकाकी न रमते । स द्वितीयम् ऐच्छत् । स हैतावान् आस यथा स्त्रीपुमांसौ सम्परिष्वक्तौ । स इमम् एवात्मानं द्वेधापातयत् । ततः पतिश् च पत्नी चाभवताम् । तस्माद् इदम् अर्धबृगलम् इव स्व इति ह स्माह याज्ञवल्क्यः । तस्माद् अयम् आकाशः स्त्रिया पूर्यत एव । तां समभवत् । ततो मनुष्या अजायन्त
sa vai naiva reme | tasmād ekākī na ramate | sa dvitīyam aicchat | sa haitāvān āsa yathā strīpumāṃsau sampariṣvaktau | sa imam evātmānaṃ dvedhāpātayat | tataḥ patiś ca patnī cābhavatām | tasmād idam ardhabṛgalam iva sva iti ha smāha yājñavalkyaḥ | tasmād ayam ākāśaḥ striyā pūryata eva | tāṃ samabhavat | tato manuṣyā ajāyanta
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
But he felt no delight. Therefore a man who is lonely feels no delight. He wished for a second. He was so large as man and wife together. He then made this his Self to fall in two (pat), and thence arose husband (pati) and wife (patni). Therefore Y af^wavalkya said: ‘We two are thus (each of us) like half a shell Therefore the void which was there, is filled by the wife. He embraced her, and men were born.
Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.