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7, 194; 8, 351, 358; 14, 44 ; 25, ing to a lower one, 38, 317 sq. ; Ixvii sq., 89, 89 n., 214 sq., 214 n.; the duties of the other A. are the order of householder is the best, incumbent on the householder, as because the others do not beget well as those of his own stage, 38, offspring, 14, 260-2; householder 324 sq.; as all the four A. are equally and ascetic, 48, 708-12; 49 (i), taught by Scripture, they are to be 94 sq.; after having studied the gone through equally, 38, 325; the Veda one may make his choice stages of studentship and housebetween the four A., 2, 192, 192 n.; holdership must precede the hermit's different purifications and allow- stage of life, 45, 62 sq.; he who ances of food for householders, possesses knowledge, may give up students, hermits, and ascetics, 7, the state of a householder, 48, 693; 196; 14, 37; the duties of the four members of all A. have a claim to À. are not for the emancipated, 8, knowledge of Brahman, 48, 702-4; 307 ; breaking through the law of even those who stand outside the the Â., the chief complaint of A. are qualified for knowledge of Brâhmanas against Buddhists, 15, li; Brahman, 48, 704 sq.; better than the three Vehicles (yanas), imita- to be outside the A. is the condition of tions of the A., 21, xxxiv n., xxxvi; standing within an . The latter state the system of the four A. older than may be due to misfortune; but he who Buddhism and Gainism, 22, xxix;
can should be within an Å., which A. and castes, 22, xxxisq. ; three A.
state is the more holy and beneficial one, obligatory, 25, 71, 71 n.; 48, 693-6;
48, 705. See also Ascetics, Brahmawhen he has paid, according to the
kârin, Hermits, and Householders. law, his debts to the great sages, to the Asrava, see Asava. manes, and to the gods, let him make Asravas, Gaina t.t., explained, 22, over everything to his son and dwell 37 n.; there are as many A. as there (in his house), not caring for any are parisravas, 22, 37; influx of A. worldly concerns, 25, 169, 205: legal through all bad channels, 45, 99; decisions about A., 25, 32 1 sq. and stopped by expiation of sins and n.; four A. known by the Veda, self-denial, 45, 163 sq.; how the 25, 505, 507; 38, 297-303; three soul becomes free from A., 45, 174; men of the first three A. must be in monks free from A., 45, 313, 377; a legal assembly, 25, 510, 510 n.; the six Å, sources of Karman, 45, the law protects the four A., 33, 8; 316 n.; Gainas should believe in the duties connected with them are the existence of A., 45, 407. obligatory on him also who does Ass, offering of an, penance for not strive after mukti, 34, lxxv; inchastity, 2, 85, 289; 14, 118, 215; 38, 312-15; persons who do not putting on the skin of an a., part of belong to any one of them have a penance, 2,89 sq.; 7, 120; riding also claims to knowledge, 34, lxxvi; naked on an a., punishment for 38, 315-17; but it is better to belong unchaste women, 14, 109 sq. ; 25, to one of them, 38, 316 sq.; A. 318; shaving with the urine of an requiring chastity are open to men a. in punishments for unchastity, whether they have reached house. 25, 319, 321; parading on an a., holdership or not, 38, 295; Gaimini's a punishment for Brâhmanas, 33, opinion on these A., 38, 295-7; four, 204 ; parading on an a., punishment not three, 38, 300 sq. ; those belong- for violating an unwilling woman, ing to the three former Â. obtain 33, 366 ;- mythical three-legged a. the world of the blessed, while the in the sea Varkash, 5, 67-9, 67 n.; mendicant enjoys immortality, 38, 24, 111, 1. ;-he-a. is a Sûdra 301; all works enjoined on them and belongs to Agni, 29, 366 ; with must be had regard to with a view twofold sperm, 29, 366; 41, 197; to the springing up of knowledge, simile of the a., 36, 279 ; how the 38, 309; of him who has entered a. was created, 41, 147; the a. on a higher one there is no descend- a substitute for cow and sheep, 41,
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