O foremost of Gandharvas, they who study the Vedas with all their branches from which all things originate and into which all things merge when destruction sets in, and which is the one object whose knowledge the Vedas seek to preach,-indeed, they who have no acquaintance with what the Vedas seek to establish,-study the Vedas uselessly and carry their burthen of such study in vain.
जायन्ते च प्रियन्ते च यस्मिन्नेते यतश्च्युताः। वेदार्थं ये न जानन्ति वेद्यं गन्धर्वसत्तम॥ साङ्गोपाङ्गानपि यदि यश्च वेदानधीयते। वेदवेद्यं न जानीते वेदभारवहो हि सः॥