The reciter, seated at his asana free from all bodily complaints, and with rapt attention, should recite the text without slowness, without a labouring voice, without being fast or quick, quietly, with sufficient energy, without confusing the letters and words together, in a sweet intonation and with such accent and emphasis as would show the sense, giving full utterance to the there and sixty letters of the alphabet from the eight places of their formation.
अविलम्बमनायस्तमद्रुतं धीरमूर्जितम्। असंसक्ताक्षरपदं स्वरभावसमन्वितम्॥ त्रिषष्टिवर्णसंयुक्तमष्टस्थानसमीरितम्। वाचयेद् वाचकः स्वस्थः स्वासीनः सुसमाहितः॥२२