रज्जोस्तु तत्त्वमनवेक्ष्य गृहीतसर्प -भावः पुमानयमहिर्वसतीति मोहात् ।आक्रोशति प्रतिबिभेति च कम्पते त -न्मिथ्यैव नात्र भुजगोऽस्ति विचार्यमाणे ॥ २६८ ॥
In plain words
He never looks closely at the rope. Delusion hands him a snake instead — "there's a snake lying right there!" — and so he shouts, jerks back in terror, stands shaking. Every bit of it false. Inquire, and there is no snake here at all.
Close to the Sanskrit
But not having examined the truth of the rope, this man, in whom the notion of a snake has been grasped, out of delusion thinking 'a snake dwells here,' cries out, recoils in fear, and trembles. That is merely false: when it is inquired into, there is no serpent here.