Markandeyapurana 28.11

28.11

kṛtopanayanaḥ samyag brahmacārī gururgṛhe /
vasettatra ca dharmo 'sya kathyate taṃ nibodha me //

“When duly invested with the sacred thread, he becomes a Brahmacārin in his guru’s house, and he should dwell there. I relate his duty; hear it of me. Private study, attendance on fire, bathing, and wandering about for alms, and always eating that food after informing his guru and obtaining permission from him. He should be diligent in the guru’s business; there should he thorough evoking of his affection; and when summoned by him, he should read intently, his mind withdrawn from everything else. After acquiring one, two or all the Vedas from his guru’s mouth, he is authorized to give the guru his fee with words of eulogy. But let him enter on the gṛhastha period when desirous of the period of family life; or, by his own wish, on the vānaprastha period and on the fourth period. Or let the dvija await his decease there in the guru’s house, obedient to the guru’s son if the guru be dead, or to the guru’s disciple, if there be no son. Obedient, free from self-conceit, let him pass through the period of a Brahmacārin.