Manu 10.70
बीजम् एके प्रशंसन्ति) क्षेत्रम् अन्ये मनीषिणः । बीजक्षेत्रे तथा-एव-अन्ये तत्र-इयं तु व्यवस्थितिः ॥
bījam eke praśaṃsanti) kṣetram anye manīṣiṇaḥ | bīja.kṣetre tathā-eva-anye tatra-iyaṃ tu vyavasthitiḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Some sages declare the seed to be more important, and others the field; again others (assert that) the seed and the field (are equally important); but the legal decision on this point is as follows:
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.