न निष्क्रयविसर्गाभ्यां भर्तुर् भार्या विमुच्यते) । एवं धर्मं विजानीमः) प्राक् प्रजापतिनिर्मितम् ॥
na niṣkraya.visargābhyāṃ bhartur bhāryā vimucyate) | evaṃ dharmaṃ vijānīmaḥ) prāk prajāpatinirmitam ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Neither by sale nor by repudiation is a wife released from her husband; such we know the law to be, which the Lord of creatures (Prajāpati) made of old.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.