मध्येतरपयोमात्रं कंचित्कालं चलाचलम् ।आद्यन्तसौम्यते त्यक्त्वा वारि वीचितया यथा
In plain words
In the middle, for some while, it is mere water in another guise, unsteady -- just as water, leaving behind the calm of its beginning and its end, takes on the state of a wave.