एतद् ध वै तज् जनको वैदेहो बुडिलम् आश्वतराश्विम् उवाच -- यन् नु हो तद् गायत्रीविद् अब्रूथाः । अथ कथं हस्तीभूतो वहसीति । मुखं ह्य् अस्याः सम्राण् न विदां चकरेति होवाच । तस्या अग्निर् एव मुखम् । यदि ह वा अपि बह्व् इवाग्नाव् अभ्यादधति सर्वम् एव तत् संदहति । एवं हैवैवंविद् यद्य् अपि बह्व् इव पापं कुरुते सर्वम् एव तत् संप्साय शुद्धः पूतो ऽजरो ऽमृतः संभवति
etad dha vai taj janako vaideho buḍilam āśvatarāśvim uvāca -- yan nu ho tad gāyatrīvid abrūthāḥ | atha kathaṃ hastībhūto vahasīti | mukhaṃ hy asyāḥ samrāṇ na vidāṃ cakareti hovāca | tasyā agnir eva mukham | yadi ha vā api bahv ivāgnāv abhyādadhati sarvam eva tat saṃdahati | evaṃ haivaivaṃvid yady api bahv iva pāpaṃ kurute sarvam eva tat saṃpsāya śuddhaḥ pūto 'jaro 'mṛtaḥ saṃbhavati
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
And thus Cranaka Vaideha spoke on this point to Butfila Avvataravvi: ‘How is it that thou who spokest thus as knowing the Gayatri, hast become an elephant and carriest me?’ He answered: ‘Your Majesty, I did not know its mouth. Agni, fire, is indeed its mouth; and if people pile even what seems much (wood) on the fire, it consumes it all. And thus a man who knows this, even if he commits what seems much evil, consumes it all and becomes pure, clean, and free from decay and death.’
Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.