Does your honored priest possess humility and purity of blood? Is he without jealousy and illiberality? Is he renowned? Has some wellbehaved, intelligent and simple Brahmana learned in the ordinances been employed by you to perform your daily rites before the sacred fire? Does he always rites before the sacred fire? Does he always remind you in proper time as to when your Homa (sacrifice) has been performed and when it should be performed (again)? Is the astrologer you have employed competent in reading physiognomy and interpreting omens and in neutralizing the disturbance of Nature?
कच्चिद् विनयसम्पन्नः कुलपुत्रो बहुश्रुतः। अनसू युरनुप्रष्टा सत्कृतस्ते पुरोहितः॥ कच्चिदग्निषु ते युक्तो विधिज्ञो मतिमानृजुः। हुतं च होष्यमाणं च काले वेदयते सदा॥ कच्चिदङ्गेषु निष्णातो ज्योतिषः प्रतिपादकः। उत्पातेषु च सर्वेषु दैवज्ञः कुशलस्तव॥