स समित्पाणिः पुनर् एयाय । तं ह प्रजापतिर् उवाच । मघवन् यच् छान्तहृदयः प्राव्राजीः सार्धं विरोचनेन किम् इच्छन् पुनर् आगम इति । स होवाच यथा एव खल्वय्यं भगवो ऽस्मिञ् छरीरे साध्वलंकृते साध्वलंकृतो भवति सुवसने सुवसनः परिष्कृते परिष्कृत एवम् एवायम् अस्मिन्न् अन्धे ऽन्धो भवति स्रामे स्रामः परिवृक्णे परिवृक्णः । अस्यैव शरीरस्य नाशम् अन्व् एष नश्यति । नाहम् अत्र भोग्यं पश्यामीति
sa samitpāṇiḥ punar eyāya | taṃ ha prajāpatir uvāca | maghavan yac chāntahṛdayaḥ prāvrājīḥ sārdhaṃ virocanena kim icchan punar āgama iti | sa hovāca yathā eva khalvayyaṃ bhagavo 'smiñ charīre sādhvalaṃkṛte sādhvalaṃkṛto bhavati suvasane suvasanaḥ pariṣkṛte pariṣkṛta evam evāyam asminn andhe 'ndho bhavati srāme srāmaḥ parivṛkṇe parivṛkṇaḥ | asyaiva śarīrasya nāśam anv eṣa naśyati | nāham atra bhogyaṃ paśyāmīti
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Taking fuel in his hand he came again as a pupil to Pragâpati. Pragâpati said to him: 'Maghavat (Indra), as you went away with Virokana, satisfied in your heart, for what purpose did you come back?' He said: 'Sir, as this self (the shadow) is well adorned, when the body is well adorned, well dressed, when the body is well dressed, well cleaned, if the body is well cleaned, that self will also be blind, if the body is blind, lame, if the body is lame, crippled, if the body is crippled, and will perish in fact as soon as the body perishes. Therefore I see no good in this (doctrine).'
Translated by F. Max Müller