[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c25.16.3 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c25.16.3 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c25.16.3 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c25.16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c25.16.3) tells his wife Maitreyī that he was going into a life of \*pravrajyā\* from being a householder. Muṇḍaka Up. I. 2. 11 refers to begging for him who has knowledge of brahma and Muṇḍaka III. 2. 6 mentions '\*saṁnyāsa\*'. In the Jābālopaniṣad ¹⁰⁰¹ (4) it is said that Janaka asked Yājñavalkya to expound \*saṁnyāsa\* and then the four āśramas are distinctly set out 'after finishing the stage of student-hood, one should become a householder; after becoming a householder one should become a forest-dweller, after being a forest-dweller, one should renounce the world; or he may do otherwise viz. he may renounce the world after the stage of student-hood itself or after being an householder or from the forest. The very day on which he becomes desireless, he should renounce the world (become a saṁnyāsin)'. Probably this passage¹⁰⁰² was not before the author of the Vedāntasūtra or he did not regard the Jābālopaniṣad as very authoritative; otherwise there would hardly have been any need for the Vedāntasūtrakāra (in the Vedāntasūtra III. 4. 18-20) to hold a discussion on Chāndogya II. 23. 1. - [Previous: v2.c25.16.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c25.16.2) - [Next: v2.c25.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c25.17) - [Up: v2.c25.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c25.16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c25.16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c25.16.3) · Pramāṇa