Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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12.110. Whatever an assembly, consisting either of at least ten, or of at least three persons who follow their
prescribed occupations, declares to be law, the legal (force of) that one must not dispute.
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12.111. Three persons who each know one of the three principal Vedas, a logician, a Mimamsaka, one who
knows the Nirukta, one who recites (the Institutes of) the sacred law, and three men belonging to the first three
orders shall constitute a (legal) assembly, consisting of at least ten members.
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12.112. One who knows the Rig-veda, one who knows the Yagur-veda, and one who knows the Sama-veda,
shall be known (to form) an assembly consisting of at least three members (and competent) to decide doubtful
points of law.
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12.113. Even that which one Brahmana versed in the Veda declares to be law, must be considered (to have)
supreme legal (force, but) not that which is proclaimed by myriads of ignorant men.
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12.114. Even if thousands of Brahmanas, who have not fulfilled their sacred duties, are unacquainted with the
Veda, and subsist only by the name of their caste, meet, they cannot (form) an assembly (for settling the sacred
law).
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12.115. The sin of him whom dunces, incarnations of Darkness, and unacquainted with the law, instruct (in his
duty), falls, increased a hundredfold, on those who propound it.
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12.116. All that which is most efficacious for securing supreme bliss has been thus declared to you; a Brahmana
who does not fall off from that obtains the most excellent state.
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12.117. Thus did that worshipful deity disclose to me, through a desire of benefiting mankind, this whole most
excellent secret of the sacred law.
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12.118. Let (every Brahmana), concentrating his mind, fully recognise in the Self all things, both the real and
the unreal, for he who recognises the universe in the Self, does not give his heart to unrighteousness.
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12.119. The Self alone is the multitude of the gods, the universe rests on the Self; for the Self produces the
connexion of these embodied (spirits) with actions.