History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c46.121

v3.c46.121

Among the oldest texts on this point is the one contained in the Tai. Up. I. 11. viz. the exhortation of the teacher on the eve of the student's departure at the close of his studies.²²⁰¹ 'If you have hereafter a doubt about any rite or about a course of conduct, you should behave in the way in which the brāhmaṇas of your place, who are thoughtful, intent (upon doing their duties), act spontaneously (without being urged by any one), are not hard-hearted and have an eye only to dharma (and not to *kāma* or *artha*) will behave. The same holds good about your conduct towards persons charged (generally falsely) with sins or lapses'.