Anushasana Parva 90.22
Rahular Itihasa / M. N. Dutt · Anushasana Parva Chapter 90 · Verse 22
Sanskrit Original
अधीत्य च यथान्यायं विधिवत् तय कारिणः। उपपन्नो गुरुकुले सत्यवादी सहस्रशः॥ अग्र्याः सर्वेषु वेदेषु सर्वप्रवचनेषु च। यावदेते प्रपश्यन्ति पड्क्त्यास्तावत्पुनन्त्युत॥
They who conversant with commentaries, they also who are given to grammatical studies, they who study the Puranas and they who study, the Dharmashastras, and having studied them act up to the standard laid down in them, he who has lived in the house of his preceptor, he who if truthful in speech, he who is a giver of thousands, they that are foremost in Vedic lore and (in the knowledge of) the scriptural and are philosophical aphorisms, these purity the lines as far they look at it.