Manu 5.2
एवं यथाउक्तं विप्राणां स्वधर्मम् अनुतिष्ठताम् । कथं मृत्युः प्रभवति वेदशास्त्रविदां प्रभो ॥
evaṃ yathā.uktaṃ viprāṇāṃ svadharmam anutiṣṭhatām | kathaṃ mṛtyuḥ prabhavati veda.śāstravidāṃ prabho ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
I.e. 'how can they be deprived of the length of life, one hundred years, allotted to men in the Veda?'
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.