Brahmanas well-trained in several branches of knowledge, self-controlled, mild-speeched, conversant with the scriptures, well-bchaved, possessed of the knowledge of Brahma, and righteous in conduct, discourse in respectable assemblies like flights of swans. They in a voice deep as the muttering of clouds give vent to auspicious, sweet, excellent, and wellpronounced words, O Yudhishthira. In the courts of monarchs, they spoke these words fraught with happiness both temporal and spiritual, themselves being received with honour and attention and served with respect by those kings.
विद्यास्वभिविनीतानां दान्तानां मृदुभाषिणाम्। श्रुतवृत्तोपपन्नानां सदाक्षरविदां सताम्॥ संसत्सु वदतां तात हंसानामिव संघशः। मङ्गल्यरूपा रुचिरा दिव्यजीमूतनिःस्वनाः॥ सम्यगुच्चरिता वाचः श्रूयन्ते हि युधिष्ठिर। शुश्रूषमाणे नृपतौ प्रेत्य चेह सुखावहाः॥