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बहुमन्यते सर्वस्मादधिकोऽहमिति ।कथ्यते इति केचित्पठन्ति ।आख्यानपञ्चमैर्वेदैः कश्चिज्जनः पञ्चवेदीति कथ्यत इत्यर्थः ।तथा चान्ये चतुर्वेदाः त्रिवेदाः अपरे द्विवेदाः एकवेदाश्च अनृचश्च तथा अपरे परित्यक्तऋगादिवेदाः अपरे ।एतेषु मनुष्येषु अधिकं श्रेष्ठं ब्रूहि, यमहं ब्राह्मणं वेद विद्याम् ॥
In plain words
Filled with pride, one thinks, 'I am greater than all.' Some read the text as 'it is said.' Thus, a person who knows the four Vedas with the chronicles as the fifth is called a 'five-Veda' scholar. Similarly, others are four-Veda, three-Veda, two-Veda, or one-Veda scholars, some have no Rig-veda, and others have abandoned Vedic study altogether. Tell me, among all these men, who is truly the greatest—the one whom I may recognize through true knowledge as a true knower of Brahman.
Close to the Sanskrit
He thinks greatly: 'I am superior to everyone.' 'Is spoken' thus some read. A certain person with the Vedas having the chronicles as the fifth is called a five-Veda [knower], this is the meaning. And similarly others are four-Veda [knowers], three-Veda [knowers], others two-Veda [knowers], and one-Veda [knowers], and non-Rig [knowers], and others who have abandoned Rig and other Vedas, [and] others. Among these men, tell me who is the superior, the best, whom I know as a Brahmana through wisdom.