न हि-ईदृशम् अनायुष्यं लोके किं चन विद्यते) । यादृशं पुरुषस्य-इह परदारौपसेवनम् ॥
na hi-īdṛśam an.āyuṣyaṃ loke kiṃ cana vidyate) | yādṛśaṃ puruṣasya-iha paradāra.upasevanam ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
For in this world there is nothing so detrimental to long life as criminal conversation with another man's wife.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.