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यो वेदप्रतिपादनप्रकारं व्याचष्टे, तम् आख्यातारं विचक्षणं ब्राह्मणम् अभिजानामि ।ननु बाल्यं पाण्डित्यादिकं निर्विद्यावस्थितमेव ब्रूते ब्राह्मणम् ‘अथ ब्राह्मणः’ इति, कथमुच्यते
In plain words
Whoever can lay out how the Veda establishes what it teaches — that person, the one who tells it and sees it clearly, I call a brāhmaṇa. But surely the śruti calls a man a brāhmaṇa only once he is done with childlikeness, done with learnedness, done with all of that and settled: 'then he is a brāhmaṇa.' So how can it be said —
Close to the Sanskrit
Whoever explains the manner in which the Veda's teaching is established — him, the declarer, the discerning one, I acknowledge as a brāhmaṇa. But surely the text declares the brāhmaṇa to be one who stands established only after becoming indifferent to childlikeness, learnedness and the rest, in the words 'then he is a brāhmaṇa'; how then is it said —