Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 1835
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 35 MB

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VISHNU.
XXVIII, 41.
41. A student shall shave all his hair, or wear it tied in one lock.
42. After having mastered the Veda, let him take leave of his teacher and bathe, after having presented him with a gift.
43. Or let him spend the remainder of his life at his teacher's house.
44. If, while he is living there, his teacher should die, let him behave to his teacher's son as towards his teacher himself;
45. Or 1 towards one of his wives, who is equal to him in caste.
46. On failure of such, let him pay homage to the fire, and live as a perpetual student.
47. A Brâhmana who passes thus without tiring (of the discharge of his duties) the time of his studentship will attain to the most exalted heavenly abode (that of Brahman) after his death, and will not be born again in this world.
48. A voluntary effusion of the semen by a twiceborn youth (in' sexual intercourse with a woman), during the period of his studentship, has been pronounced a transgression of the rule prescribed for students by expounders of the Vedas well acquainted with the system of duties.
49. Having loaded himself with that crime, he must go begging to seven houses, clothed only with the skin of an ass, and proclaiming his deed.
42. After the solemn bath (see Âsv. III, 8, 9; Gobh. III, 4; Pâr. II, 6; Sânkh. III, 1), which terminates the period of studentship, the student, who is henceforth called Snataka, one who has bathed,' is allowed to return home.
45. 'According to Nand., the particle vâ, 'or,' is used in order to include another alternative, that of living with an old fellowstudent, as directed by Gautama, III, 8.
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