याज्ञवल्क्येति होवाच -- यत्रास्य पुरुषस्य मृतस्याग्निं वाग् अप्येति वातं प्राणश् चक्षुर् आदित्यं मनश् चन्द्रं दिशः श्रोत्रं पृथिवीं शरीरम् आकाशम् आत्मौषधीर् लोमानि वनस्पतीन् केशा अप्सु लोहितं च रेतश् च निधीयते क्वायं तदा पुरुषो भवतीति । आहर सौम्य हस्तम् आर्तभाग । आवाम् एवैतस्य वेदिष्यावो न नाव् एतत् सजन इति । तौ होत्क्रम्य मन्त्रयां चक्राते । तौ ह यद् ऊचतुः कर्म हैव तद् ऊचतुः । अथ ह यत् प्रशंसतुः कर्म हैव तत् प्रशशंसतुः । पुण्यो वै पुण्येन कर्मणा भवति पापः पापेनेति । ततो ह जारत्कारव आर्तभाग उपरराम
yājñavalkyeti hovāca -- yatrāsya puruṣasya mṛtasyāgniṃ vāg apyeti vātaṃ prāṇaś cakṣur ādityaṃ manaś candraṃ diśaḥ śrotraṃ pṛthivīṃ śarīram ākāśam ātmauṣadhīr lomāni vanaspatīn keśā apsu lohitaṃ ca retaś ca nidhīyate kvāyaṃ tadā puruṣo bhavatīti | āhara saumya hastam ārtabhāga | āvām evaitasya vediṣyāvo na nāv etat sajana iti | tau hotkramya mantrayāṃ cakrāte | tau ha yad ūcatuḥ karma haiva tad ūcatuḥ | atha ha yat praśaṃsatuḥ karma haiva tat praśaśaṃsatuḥ | puṇyo vai puṇyena karmaṇā bhavati pāpaḥ pāpeneti | tato ha jāratkārava ārtabhāga upararāma
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
‘ Y&^avalkya,’ he said,‘when the speech of this dead person enters into the fire, breath into the air, the eye into the sun, the mind into the moon, the hearing into space, into the earth the body, into the ether the self, into the shrubs the hairs of the body, into the trees the hairs of the head, when the blood and the seed are deposited in the water, where is then that person?’ Ya/^avalkya said: ‘ Take my hand, my friend. We two alone shall know of this; let this question of ours not be (discussed) in public.’ Then these two went out and argued, and what they said was karman (work), what they praised was karman *, viz. that a man becomes good by good work, and bad by bad work. After that Garatkarava Arta- bhaga held his peace.
Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.