Manu 12.54
बहून् वर्षगणान् घोरान् नरकान् प्राप्य) तत्क्षयात् । संसारान् प्रतिपद्यन्ते) महापातकिनस् त्व् इमान् ॥
bahūn varṣagaṇān ghorān narakān prāpya) tatkṣayāt | saṃsārān pratipadyante) mahāpātakinas tv imān ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Those who committed mortal sins (mahapataka), having passed during large numbers of years through dreadful hells, obtain, after the expiration of (that term of punishment), the following births.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.