The Rikas, the Yagumshi, and the Samani form eight syllables. One foot (the second) of the Gayatri consists of eight syllables. This (one foot) of it is that (i.e. the three Vedas, the Rig-veda, Yagurveda, and Sama-veda). And he who thus knows that foot of it, conquers as far as that threefold knowledge extends.