Manava Dharmashastra 2.164

2.164

saṃskṛtātmopanīto dvijo'nena kramayogena tapaḥ sañcinuyāt | 'adhyeṣyamādya' ityata ārabhya yadbrahmacāriṇaḥ kartavyamuktaṃ tasyāneneti pratyavamarśaḥ | anena vidhisaṅghātena kramayogena krameṇānuṣṭhīyamānena tapa ātmasaṃskāraṃ niṣkalmaṣatvalakṣaṇam | yathā tapasā cāndrāyaṇādinā niṣkalmaṣatvaṃ bhavatyevamanenāpi vedagrahaṇārthena yamaniyamasamūhena | ataḥ sañcinuyāt śanaistvarayā'rjayecca vardhayecca | kramaḥ paripāṭī idaṃ kṛtvedaṃ kartavyam, 'oṃkārapūrvikā' ityādiḥ, tena yogaḥ sambandho yasyānuṣṭhānasyeti yāvat | brahmaṇaḥ ādhigamikamadhigamārtham | adhyayanabodhāvadhigamaḥ |

Sanctified in self, the twice-born man, while dwelling with his Teacher, should, by the adoption of this course, generally accumulate sanctity for the learning of the Veda.—(164)

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Sanctified in self’—i.e., duly initiated,—‘the twice-born man should, by the adoption of this course, accumulate sanctity.’ ‘This’ refers to all those duties that have been laid down for the Religious Student, from verse 70 onwards. The meaning is that anena kramayogena—by the orderly carrying out of the host of injunctions, one should accumulate ‘sanctity’—self-purification, consisting in freedom from sin; just as freedom from sin is attained by means of the Cāndrāyaṇa and other austerities, so also is it attained by means of the course of restraints and observances prescribed in connection with the study of the Veda. For this reason one should accumulate it, ‘gradually,’—without haste, be should acquire it and go on enhancing it.

‘Course’ is ‘process’;—‘this should be done after having done that, and so forth’; e.g., ‘Preceded by the uttering of the syllable om, etc.’ (as laid down in verse 81); and the ‘adoption’ of this is taking up of the performance.

‘For the learning of the Veda,’—for the purpose of learning it; learning stands for the getting up of the text and understanding of the meaning.—(164)