Verse 54

⁵⁴Paila the sage spoke his own gathering to Indrapramiti and to Baskala; and he in his turn told his own gathering to his pupils, ⁵⁵dividing it in four, to Bodhya and to Yajnavalkya, bearer of the Bhrgu line, and to Parasara and to Agnimitra. And Indrapramiti, who had himself in hand, ⁵⁶taught his own gathering to the sage Mandukeya, the poet; and his pupil Devamitra told it to Saubhari and the others. ⁵⁷Sakalya, his son, divided his own gathering into five and laid it in Vatsya, Mudgala, Saliya, Gokhalya and Sisira. ⁵⁸And Jatukarnya, his pupil, gave his own gathering, with a book of word-meanings, to Balaka, Paija, Vaitala and Viraja.

⁵⁹Baskali made the gathering called of the Valakhilyas out of the sub-branches, and Valayani, Bhajya and Kasara held on to it. ⁶⁰These are the gatherings of many verses, and they were held by these brahmin sages. Hearing this dividing of the metres, a man is loosed from all his wrongs.