O foremost of men, the intelligent hold that in this world the connection of the pious with the pious is more closer in respect of relationship than that through the uterus.
यौनात् सम्बन्धकाल्लोके विशिष्टं संगतं सताम्। सद्भिः सह नरश्रेष्ठ प्रवदन्ति मनीषिणः॥