Khila Kanda. Adhyaya 6, Brahmana 1. The contest of the organs: the vital breath is greatest
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Each mantra is given four ways: the Sanskrit in its Devanagari script, the same sounds in Roman letters, an English translation set in our own voice, and then the line once more in plain words, for a first and unhurried reading.
Not every passage is opened to the same depth. A few central mantras carry the full cross-school commentary, where the schools are set side by side. The rest are kept here whole and faithful, set in their place but not expounded, so the book stays entire and nothing is dropped for being thought minor.
Where the schools read a line differently, the difference is kept open. None is crowned and none is corrected. Each is met on its own terms, and where they contradict, the contradiction is left standing for you to sit with.
Seed, and the multiplying line
He who knows procreation is multiplied through offspring and animals. The seed is indeed procreation. He is multiplied through offspring and animals, who knows this.
Whoever knows procreation (prajati) is enriched with children and livestock. The seed (retas) is that procreation. The one who knows this is multiplied through offspring and animals.
In the commentaries
The seed is procreation because from it offspring and animals are generated and continued; meditation on the seed as such enriches one with progeny and cattle. The word 'seed' here stands for the generative organ.