The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.42

c14.42

¹ Āpastambh. II. 21.1 sq. "There are four stages of life (âśrama), the house-holder's stage, the scholar's stage, the stage of the ascetic and that of the hermit in the forest. Who lives in all these according to the prescribed rules, attains peace of the soul." Manu VI. 37 expressly states that going into the forest must follow the life of the scholar and that of the householder: "A twice-born who seeks to be freed from the world without studying the Vedas and without producing any son, sinks."