dn4:13.1 Then Soṇadaṇḍa straightened his back, looked around the assembly, and said to the Buddha,
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dn4:13.2 “Worthy Gotama, a brahmin must possess five factors for the brahmins to describe him as a brahmin;
dn4:13.3 and so that when he says ‘I am a brahmin’ he speaks rightly, without falling into falsehood.
dn4:13.4 What five?
dn4:13.5 It’s when a brahmin is well born on both his mother’s and father’s side, stemming from a clean vessel, with irrefutable and impeccable genealogy back to the seventh paternal generation.
dn4:13.6 He recites and remembers the hymns, and has mastered the three Vedas, together with their vocabularies and ritual performance, their phonology and word classification, and the testaments as fifth. He knows them word-by-word, and their grammar. He is well versed in cosmology and the marks of a great man.
dn4:13.7 He is attractive, good-looking, lovely, of surpassing beauty. He has divine looks and lustre, remarkable to behold.
dn4:13.8 He is ethical, mature in ethical conduct.
dn4:13.9 He’s astute and intelligent, being the first or second to hold the sacrificial ladle.
dn4:13.10 These are the five factors which a brahmin must possess for the brahmins to describe him as a brahmin;
dn4:13.11 and so that when he says ‘I am a brahmin’ he speaks rightly, without falling into falsehood.”