अथ हैनं कौसल्यश् चाश्वलायनः पप्रच्छ । भगवन् कुत एष प्राणो जायते । कथम् आयात्य् अस्मिन् शरीरे । आत्मानं वा प्रविभज्य कथं प्रातिष्ठते । केनोत्क्रमते । कथं बाह्यम् अभिधत्ते । कथम् अध्यात्मम् इति
atha hainaṃ kausalyaś cāśvalāyanaḥ papraccha | bhagavan kuta eṣa prāṇo jāyate | katham āyāty asmin śarīre | ātmānaṃ vā pravibhajya kathaṃ prātiṣṭhate | kenotkramate | kathaṃ bāhyam abhidhatte | katham adhyātmam iti
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Then Kausalya Âsvalâyana asked: "Sir, whence is that Prâna (spirit) born? How does it come into this body? And how does it abide, after it has divided itself? How does it go out? How does it support what is without, and how what is within?"
Translated by F. Max Müller