The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.43

c14.43

The Brâhmaṇa goes, when grown up, to a teacher, studies here the Vedas, sets up then a household, renounces later worldly life and goes to the forest where he lives either as a hermit or surrounded by a host of pupils and ascetics and which he quits in course of time to take up the life of the ascetic and provide himself