[192] Now at that time the young brahmin (māṇavaka) named Aṅgaka, the nephew of the brahmin Soṇadaṇḍa, was seated in that assembly. Then the brahmin Soṇadaṇḍa said to those brahmins: "Do you gentlemen see this young brahmin Aṅgaka, our nephew?"
"Yes, sir."
"Gentlemen, the young brahmin Aṅgaka is handsome, good to look upon, pleasing, endowed with supreme beauty of complexion, with the complexion of Brahmā, the presence of Brahmā, of no small account to behold. There is no one in this assembly his equal in appearance, except for the ascetic Gotama. The young brahmin Aṅgaka is a reciter, a preserver of the hymns (manta), one gone to the far shore of the three Vedas together with the vocabularies (nighaṇḍu) and the ritual manuals (keṭubha), with the analysis of syllables, and with the histories (itihāsa) as the fifth; skilled in the words, a grammarian, fully versed in cosmology (lokāyata) and the marks of a great man — and I am his teacher of the hymns. The young brahmin Aṅgaka is well born on both sides, on the mother's side and the father's, of purified descent back through seven generations of paternal ancestors, unassailable and irreproachable with respect to birth — and I know his mother and father. But if the young brahmin Aṅgaka were to kill living beings, take what is not given, go with others' wives, speak falsehood, and drink intoxicants — then what, in that case, will appearance accomplish, what the hymns, what birth? Insofar, gentlemen, as a brahmin is virtuous (sīlavā), mature in virtue, endowed with mature virtue, and is wise (paṇḍita) and intelligent, the first or the second among those who hold up the sacrificial offering — it is one endowed with these two factors, gentlemen, whom brahmins declare to be a brahmin; and saying '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English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.