Bhagavatapurana 11.7.35

11.7.35

ete me guravo rājan catur-viṃśatir āśritāḥ /
śikṣā vṛttibhir eteṣām anvaśikṣam ihātmanaḥ //

33. to 35. The earth, the air, the sky, water, fire, the moon, the sun, the pigeon, the boa-constructor, the sea, the moth, the bee, the elephant, the honey-gatherer, the deer, the fish, Pingala, the kurara, the child, the girl, the blacksmith, the serpent, the spider, the wasp,—these twenty-four are, O king, adopted by me as my preceptors; from their exemplary ways I learnt all that I had to learn here.