History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c24.s1.422

v2.c24.s1.422

Atri (VIII. 16) says ⁹¹³ that if a person undertakes to be a perpetual student, but falls from that ideal, there is no prāyaścitta for that lapse. Some interpret this as applying to one who becomes a saṃnyāsin and then gives up that mode of life; while others like the Saṃskāra-prakāśa (p. 564) interpret it as meaning that the prāyaścitta is double of what the upakurvāṇa would have to undergo.