इमाः सोम्य नद्यः पुरस्तात् प्राच्यः स्यन्दन्ते पश्चात् प्रतीच्यः । ताः समुद्रात् समुद्रम् एवापियन्ति । स समुद्र एव भवति । ता यथा तत्र न विदुर् इयम् अहम् अस्मीयम् अहम् अस्मीति
imāḥ somya nadyaḥ purastāt prācyaḥ syandante paścāt pratīcyaḥ | tāḥ samudrāt samudram evāpiyanti | sa samudra eva bhavati | tā yathā tatra na vidur iyam aham asmīyam aham asmīti
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
'These rivers, my son, run, the eastern (like the Gangâ) toward the east, the western (like the Sindhu) toward the west. They go from sea to sea (i.e. the clouds lift up the water from the sea to the sky, and send it back as rain to the sea). They become indeed sea. And as those rivers, when they are in the sea, do not know, I am this or that river,
Translated by F. Max Müller