Once on a time, O destroyer of enemics, an intelligent disciple questioned certain Brahmana of rigid vows who was preceptor, as a he was scated, saying-What, indeed, is the highest good?
कश्चिद् ब्राह्मणमासीनमाचार्यं संशितव्रतम्। शिष्यः प्रप्रच्छ मेधावी किंस्विच्छ्रेयः परंतप॥