Manu 4.256
वाच्य् अर्था नियताः सर्वे वाच्मूला वाच्विनिःसृताः । तांस् तु यः स्तेनयेद्) वाचं स सर्वस्तेयकृत्- नरः ॥ [म्तान् तु?]
vācy arthā niyatāḥ sarve vāc.mūlā vāc.viniḥsṛtāḥ | tāṃs tu yaḥ stenayed) vācaṃ sa sarvasteyakṛt- naraḥ || [M.tān tu?]
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
All things (have their nature) determined by speech; speech is their root, and from speech they proceed; but he who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.