Agni said The Brahmana who engaged in study and considering himself learned, seeks with the help of his learning to destroy the reputation of others falls away from virtue and comes to be regarded as divorced from truth. Such persons of refractory spirit never acquire regions of happiness hereafter.
अग्निरुवाच अधीयानः पण्डितं मन्यमानो यो विद्यया हन्ति यशः परेषाम्। प्रभ्रश्यतेऽसौ चरते न सत्यं लोकास्तस्य ह्यन्तवन्तो भवन्ति॥