[226] "Now, while the worthy king is performing the great sacrifice, someone might say: 'King Mahāvijita performs a great sacrifice; but his brahmin high priest (purohita) is not one who recites and retains the hymns, not a master of the three Vedas together with the vocabularies (nighaṇḍu) and the ritual manuals (keṭubha), with phonology and the analysis of words, and with the histories (itihāsa) as the fifth; he is not skilled in the word-by-word texts, not a grammarian, not fully versed in cosmology (lokāyata) and the marks of a great man; nor is his brahmin high priest virtuous, of mature virtue, endowed with mature virtue; nor is his brahmin high priest wise, competent, and intelligent, the first or the second among those who hold up the offering—and yet the worthy king performs a great sacrifice of such a kind.' But one who would speak thus of the worthy king has no legitimacy in truth. For the worthy king's brahmin high priest is indeed wise, competent, and intelligent, the first or the second among those who hold up the offering. Let the worthy king know this too as a reason: let the worthy one sacrifice, let the worthy one relinquish, let the worthy one rejoice, and let the worthy one make his heart (citta) confident within."
"By these sixteen respects, brahmin, the brahmin high priest instructed, encouraged, inspired, and gladdened the mind of King Mahāvijita as he was performing the great sacrifice."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.