No one should attack a Brahmana, but no Brahmana (if attacked) should let himself fly at his aggressor!
Woe to him who strikes a Brahmana, more woe to him who flies at his aggressor!
I do not call a man a Brahmana because of his origin or of his mother.
Him I call indeed a Brahmana who has no interests, and when he has understood (the truth), does not say How, how?
In another passage this Brahmana gives quite a different account.
Hearing these words of the monarch, the Brahmana said, 'So be it!'
Not a single Brahmana then adhereth to the duties of his order.
And thereupon the Brahmana said, 'Let it be given to me soon.'
No person, O good Brahmana, can be the dispenser of his own lot.
A Brahmana by bathing there would become as bright as the Moon.
