Manu 4.124
ऋग्वेदो देवदैवत्यो यजुर्वेदस् तु मानुषः । सामवेदः स्मृतः) पित्र्यस् तस्मात् तस्य-अशुचिर् ध्वनिः ॥
ṛgvedo deva.daivatyo yajurvedas tu mānuṣaḥ | sāmavedaḥ smṛtaḥ) pitryas tasmāt tasya-aśucir dhvaniḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
The ifog-veda is declared to be sacred to the gods, the Yajur-veda sacred to men, and the Sama-veda sacred to the manes; hence the sound of the latter is impure (as it were).
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.