reto hoccakrāma | tat saṃvatsaraṃ proṣyāgatyovāca -- katham aśakata mad ṛte jīvitum iti | te hocuḥ -- yathā klībā aprajāyamānā retāsā prāṇantaḥ prāṇena vadanto vācā paśyantaś cakṣuṣā śṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa vidvāṃso manasaivam ajīviṣmeti | praviveśa ha retaḥ ||
8. The tongue (speech) departed, and having been absent for a year, it came back and said: 'How have you been able to live without me?' They replied: 'Like unto people, not speaking with the tongue, but breathing with breath, seeing with the eye, hearing with the ear, knowing with the mind, generating with seed. Thus we have lived.' Then speech entered in.
tathā cakṣurheccakrāmetyādi pūrvavat |
śrotraṃ manaḥ prajātirita ||9-12 ||