verse 10

Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:

न पुरश्चरणैः कश्चिद् विनाष्टादशभिर् मनुः
केनापि साधितः क्वापि मया दृष्टो न भू-तले

na puraścaraṇaiḥ kaścid vināṣṭādaśabhir manuḥ
kenāpi sādhitaḥ kvāpi mayā dṛṣṭo na bhū-tale

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

na—not; puraścaraṇaiḥ—with purascarana; kaścit—someone; vinā—without; aṣṭādaśabhiḥ—with 18 syllables; manuḥ—mantra; kenāpi—by someone; sādhitaḥ—attained; kvāpi—somewhere; mayā—by me; dṛṣṭaḥ—seen; na—not; bhū-tale—on the earth.

English translation of verse:

Someone somewhere may have attained the eighteen-syllable mantra without first performing purścaraṇa, but I have not seen that person anywhere in the world.