Sūta said:: All of them are brilliant, brave and powerful. They can assume any form they desire. They have divine ornaments and dresses. They are devotees of Brahman. They maintain sacrificial fires; they perform all kinds of Yajñas, and distribute hundreds and thousands by way of monetary gifts (and sacrificial fees). They are embellished with crowns, earings, necklaces and upper arm bracelets. They are scholars in the Vedas and Vedāṅgas. They are experts in the science of polity, in discharging missiles and withdrawing them or in the activity of killing. They have preference for divine Mantras, they are honoured on account of divine Mantras; they are efficient, powerful and heroic. They strike by means of all kinds of weapons. They are gentle, they can assume divine forms and are devoid of old age and death. There are ten thousand families of such noble-souled monkeys.