Those Brahmanas whom Brahman created at the beginning, succeeded through their penances in honouring not the Earth alone but the heaven also in which they moved about at pleasure.
ये चादौ ब्राह्मणाः सृष्टा ब्रह्मणा तपसा पुरा। ते भावयन्तः पृथिवीं विचरन्ति दिवं तथा॥