सा ह वाग् उच्चक्राम । सा संवत्सरं प्रोष्य पर्येत्योवाच । कथम् अशकतर्ते मज् जीवितुम् इति । यथा कला अवदन्तः प्राणन्तः प्राणेन पश्यन्तश् चक्षुषा शृण्वन्तः श्रोत्रेण ध्यायन्तो मनसैवम् इति । प्रविवेश ह वाक्
sā ha vāg uccakrāma | sā saṃvatsaraṃ proṣya paryetyovāca | katham aśakatarte maj jīvitum iti | yathā kalā avadantaḥ prāṇantaḥ prāṇena paśyantaś cakṣuṣā śṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa dhyāyanto manasaivam iti | praviveśa ha vāk
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
The tongue (speech) departed, and having been absent for a year, it came round and said: 'How have you been able to live without me?' They replied: 'Like mute people, not speaking, but breathing with the breath, seeing with the eye, hearing with the ear, thinking with the mind. Thus we lived.' Then speech went back.
Translated by F. Max Müller