अयं वै लोको ऽग्निर् गौतम । तस्य पृथिव्य् एव समित् । अग्निर् धूमः । रात्रिर् अर्चिः । चन्द्रमा अङ्गाराः । नक्षत्राणि विष्फुलिङ्गाः । तस्मिन्न् एतस्मिन्न् अग्नौ देवा वृष्टिं जुह्वति । तस्या आहुत्या अन्नं संभवति
ayaṃ vai loko 'gnir gautama | tasya pṛthivy eva samit | agnir dhūmaḥ | rātrir arciḥ | candramā aṅgārāḥ | nakṣatrāṇi viṣphuliṅgāḥ | tasminn etasminn agnau devā vṛṣṭiṃ juhvati | tasyā āhutyā annaṃ saṃbhavati
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
‘The altar, O Gautama, is this world; the fuel is the earth itself, the smoke the fire, the light the night, the coals the moon, the sparks the stars. On that altar the Devas offer rain. From that oblation rises food. submitted to become pupils to teachers of a lower caste, not, however, in order to learn, but simply in order to live. Therefore Gautama also becomes a pupil in name only, for it would be against all law to act otherwise. See Gautama, Dharma-sutras VII,, ed. Stenzler; translated by Biihler, p. 209.
Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.