एतम् उ हैव मधुकः पैङ्ग्यश् चूलाय भागवित्तये ऽन्तेवासिन उक्त्वोवाच -- अपि य एनं शुष्के स्थाणौ निषिञ्चेज् जायेरञ् छाखाः प्ररोहेयुः पलाशानीति
etam u haiva madhukaḥ paiṅgyaś cūlāya bhāgavittaye 'ntevāsina uktvovāca -- api ya enaṃ śuṣke sthāṇau niṣiñcej jāyerañ chākhāḥ praroheyuḥ palāśānīti
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Madhuka Paingya told the same to his pupil Bhagavitti, and said: ‘If a man were to pour it on a dry stick, branches would grow, and leaves spring forth.’
Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.