Manu 12.25
यो यदा-एषां गुणो देहे साकल्येन-अतिरिच्यते) । स तदा तद्गुणप्रायं तं करोति) शरीरिणम् ॥
yo yadā-eṣāṃ guṇo dehe sākalyena-atiricyate) | sa tadā tadguṇaprāyaṃ taṃ karoti) śarīriṇam ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
When one of these qualities wholly predominates in a body, then it makes the embodied (soul) eminently distinguished for that quality.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.