[186] Then the brahmin Soṇadaṇḍa, straightening up his body and surveying the assembly, said this to the Blessed One: "Worthy Gotama, one possessed of five factors do the brahmins designate a brahmin, and when he says 'I am a brahmin' he would speak rightly and would not fall into false speech. What five? Here, worthy Gotama, a brahmin is well born on both sides, on the mother's side and on the father's, of pure descent from the womb back through seven generations of forefathers, unimpeached and irreproachable with respect to birth; he is a reciter and bearer of the hymns (manta), a master of the three Vedas together with the vocabularies (nighaṇḍu) and the ritual manuals (ketubha), with the analysis of syllables, with the legends (itihāsa) as the fifth, skilled in the words and versed in grammar, fully accomplished in cosmology (lokāyata) and in the marks of a great man; he is handsome, good to look upon, inspiring confidence, endowed with supreme beauty of complexion, with the complexion of Brahmā, with the splendour of Brahmā, of no mean appearance to behold; he is virtuous, of mature virtue (sīla), endowed with mature virtue; and he is wise and intelligent, the first or the second among those who hold up the oblation. Possessed of these five factors, worthy Gotama, do the brahmins designate one a brahmin, and when he says 'I am a brahmin' he would speak rightly and would not fall into false speech."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.