Verse 61

⁶¹The pupils of Vaisampayana became the Caraka officiants, because for their teacher they carried out a vow that wiped away the guilt of killing a brahmin. ⁶²And Yajnavalkya, his pupil, said: ah, revered one, how much is it worth, this practice of men of little substance? I will carry out something far harder. ⁶³Spoken to like this, the teacher too said in his anger: go; I have had enough of you. You are a pupil who looks down on brahmins. Give up at once what you have learned from me. ⁶⁴And he, the son of Devarata, vomited up the set of the Yajus and went away. Then the sages saw those Yajus verses, ⁶⁵and, becoming partridges, took them up out of greed for them. Those became the branches of the Yajus called of the partridges, and they are very finely made.

⁶⁶Then Yajnavalkya, brahmin, looking for verses his teacher did not have, waited well upon the sun, the Lord.