अयम् अग्निर् वैश्वानरो यो ऽयम् अन्तः पुरुषे । येनेदम् अन्नं पच्यते । यद् इदम् अद्यते । तस्यैष घोषो भवति । यम् एतत् कर्णाव् अपिधाय शृणोति । स यदोत्क्रमिष्यन् भवति नैनं घोषं शृणोति
ayam agnir vaiśvānaro yo 'yam antaḥ puruṣe | yenedam annaṃ pacyate | yad idam adyate | tasyaiṣa ghoṣo bhavati | yam etat karṇāv apidhāya śṛṇoti | sa yadotkramiṣyan bhavati nainaṃ ghoṣaṃ śṛṇoti
Agni Vabvanara is the fire within man by which the food that is eaten is cooked, i. e. digested. Its noise is that which one hears, if one covers one’s ears. When he is on the point of departing this life, he does not hear that noise.
Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.