Bhashya
यद्येवम्, वेत्थ विजानासि किम्, यथा येन प्रकारेणइमाः प्रजाः प्रसिद्धाः, प्रयत्यः म्रियमाणाः, विप्रतिपद्यन्ता३इति विप्रतिपद्यन्ते ; विचारणार्था प्लुतिः ; समानेन मार्गेण
In plain words
Given all that, he asks: 'do you know' — vettha simply means 'do you understand'; yathā means 'in what way'; these creatures are the familiar ones all around us; prayatyaḥ means 'while they are dying'; and vipratipadyantā3 means they scatter off in different directions — the drawn-out vowel there is meant to make you stop and really weigh the question. By the same path—
Close to the Sanskrit
If this is so, 'do you know' — vettha means vijānāsi, 'do you know'; yathā means yena prakāreṇa, 'in what manner'; imāḥ prajāḥ, 'these creatures', the well-known ones; prayatyaḥ means mriyamāṇāḥ, 'while dying'; vipratipadyantā3 means vipratipadyante, 'they go their separate ways' — the protracted vowel here serves the purpose of deliberation; by the same path—