न ब्राह्मणं परीक्षेत) दैवे कर्मणि धर्मवित् । पित्र्ये कर्मणि तु प्राप्ते परीक्षेत) प्रयत्नतः ॥
na brāhmaṇaṃ parīkṣeta) daive karmaṇi dharmavit | pitrye karmaṇi tu prāpte parīkṣeta) prayatnataḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
For a rite sacred to the gods, he who knows the law will not make (too close) inquiries regarding an (invited) Brāhmaṇa; but when one performs a
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.