Manu 4.204
यमान् सेवेत) सततं न नित्यं नियमान् बुधः । यमान् पतत्य्) अकुर्वाणो नियमान् केवलान् भजन्) ॥
yamān seveta) satataṃ na nityaṃ niyamān budhaḥ | yamān pataty) a.kurvāṇo niyamān kevalān bhajan) ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
A wise man should constantly discharge the paramount duties (called yama), but not always the minor ones (called niyama); for he who does not may be performed either by a sinner in order to atone for a crime or by a guiltless man in order to gain spiritual merit; see
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.