Tena kho pana samayena selo brāhmaṇo āpaṇe paṭivasati, tiṇṇaṁ vedānaṁ pāragū sanighaṇḍukeṭubhānaṁ sākkharappabhedānaṁ itihāsapañcamānaṁ padako veyyākaraṇo lokāyatamahāpurisalakkhaṇesu anavayo, tīṇi ca māṇavakasatāni mante vāceti.
Pada saat itu, brahmana Sela sedang berdiam di Āpaṇa. Ia telah menguasai tiga Veda beserta kosakata dan ritualnya, fonologi dan klasifikasi katanya, serta kitab-kitab sejarah sebagai yang kelima. Ia mahir dalam tata bahasa dan tidak cacat dalam kosmologi serta tanda-tanda manusia agung. Ia mengajari tiga ratus siswa muda untuk melafalkan mantra-mantra.
Now at that time the brahmin Sela was residing in Āpaṇa. He had mastered the three Vedas, together with their vocabularies and ritual performance, their phonology and word classification, and the testaments as fifth. He knew them word-by-word, and their grammar. He was well versed in cosmology and the marks of a great man. And he was teaching three hundred young students to recite the hymns.