Verse 146

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In plain words

Your mother is no refuge. Neither is your father, nor your children, nor your brothers, nor anyone else. This is the one supreme refuge: the teacher's foot, set upon my head.

Close to the Sanskrit

A refuge she is not, the mother; nor the father, nor the sons, nor the brothers, nor others. This supreme refuge shall be: the foot, placed by the teacher upon my head.