Manava Dharmashastra 2.39

2.39

asmātkālādūrdhvaṃ pareṇa trayo'pyete varṇāḥ brāhmaṇādayo yathākāla' yasyopanayanakālaḥ tatrānukalpike'pyasaṃskṛtā akṛtopanayanāḥ sāvitrīpatitā upanayanabhraṣṭā bhavanti | vrātyāśca saṃjñayā | 'āryai' : śiṣṭai' : 'vigarhitāḥ' ninditāḥ | vrātyasaṃjñāvyavahāraprasiddhayartho'yaṃ ślokaḥ | anupaneyatvaṃ tu pūrveṇaiva siddham |
uktam “āryairninditaḥ” | kā punareṣāṃ nindetyāha |

Beyond this, all these three, not having received the sacrament at the proper time, become excluded from Sāvitrī (initiation), and thereby come to be known as ‘Vrātyas’ (apostates), despised by all good men.—(39)

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Beyond’—after—the said time, ‘all these three’ castes—the Brāhmaṇa and the rest;—‘at the proper time’—at the exact time prescribed for each caste, or even at the secondary period permitted;—‘not having received the sacrament’—not having their Upanayana- ceremony performed;—‘excluded from Sāvitrī’—become fallen off from Initiation; and also ‘come to he known as Vrātyas’—‘despised,’ looked down upon, ‘by all good men’ by respectable and cultured people.

This verse is intended to explain the signification of the well known name ‘Vrātya’ That they become excluded from Initiation has already been implied in the preceding verse.

It has been said that they ‘are despised by good men’; the next verse explains the nature of contempt in which they are held.—(39)