चक्षुर् होच्चक्राम । तत् संवत्सरं प्रोष्य पर्येत्योवाच । कथम् अशकतर्ते मज् जीवितुम् इति । यथान्धा अपश्यन्तः प्राणन्तः प्राणेन वदन्तो वाचा शृण्वन्तः श्रोत्रेण ध्यायन्तो मनसैवम् इति । प्रविवेश ह चक्षुः
cakṣur hoccakrāma | tat saṃvatsaraṃ proṣya paryetyovāca | katham aśakatarte maj jīvitum iti | yathāndhā apaśyantaḥ prāṇantaḥ prāṇena vadanto vācā śṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa dhyāyanto manasaivam iti | praviveśa ha cakṣuḥ
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
The eye (sight) 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 blind people, not seeing, but breathing with the breath, speaking with the tongue, hearing with the ear, thinking with the mind. Thus we lived.' Then the eye went back.
Translated by F. Max Müller