Bhrigu said That person is called a Brahmana who has been sanctified by birth and other rites; who is pure in conduct; who is devoted to the study of the Vedas, who is constant in his practices of the six well-known purificatory rite; who is steady in all works of pity, who is not given to take his food without having offered it duly to gods and guests; who is attached to his preceptor; and who is always mindful vows and truth.
भृगुरुवाच जातकर्मादिभिर्यस्तु संस्कारैः संस्कृतः शुचिः। वेदाध्ययनसम्पन्नः घट्सु : घट्सु कर्मस्ववस्थितः॥ शौचाचारस्थितः सम्यग्विघसाशी गुरुप्रियः। नित्यव्रती सत्यपरः स वै ब्राह्मण उच्यते॥