Manu 9.40
अन्यद् उप्तं जातम् अन्यद् इत्य् एतत्-न-उपपद्यते) । उप्यते) यद्द् हि यद् बीजं तत् तद् एव प्ररोहति) ॥
anyad uptaṃ jātam anyad ity etat-na-upapadyate) | upyate) yadd hi yad bījaṃ tat tad eva prarohati) ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
That one (plant) should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, (a plant of) that kind even comes forth.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.