देवेभ्यः कम् अवृणीत मृत्युम् प्रजायै कम् अमृतं नावृणीत । बृहस्पतिं यज्ञम् अकृण्वत ऋषिम् प्रियां यमस् तन्वम् प्रारिरेचीत् ॥
devebhyaḥ kam avṛṇīta mṛtyum prajāyai kam amṛtaṃ nāvṛṇīta | bṛhaspatiṃ yajñam akṛṇvata ṛṣim priyāṃ yamas tanvam prārirecīt ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
He, for God's sake, chose death to be his portion. He chose not, for men's good, a life eternal They sacrificed Brhaspati the Rsi. Yama delivered up his own dear body.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)