यान् उपाश्रित्य) तिष्ठन्ति) लोका देवाश् च सर्वदा । ब्रह्म च-एव धनं येषां को हिंस्यात्) ताञ् जिजीविषुः ॥
yān upāśritya) tiṣṭhanti) lokā devāś ca sarvadā | brahma ca-eva dhanaṃ yeṣāṃ ko hiṃsyāt) tāñ jijīviṣuḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
What man, desirous of life, would injure them to whose support the (three) worlds and the gods ever owe their existence, and whose wealth is the Veda?
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.