[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) › v3.c46.45 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c46.45 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c46.45 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c46.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46.45) The Jābālopaniṣad²¹⁵⁶ (6) describes the state of paramahaṁsas at great length. They are sages like Saṁvartaka, Āruṇi, Śvetaketu, Durvāsas, Ṛbhu, Nidāgha, Jaḍabharata, Dattātreya, Raivataka; they do not exhibit any visible signs of their order or any visible rules of conduct; though they are really not mad they behave like one mad; they go out for alms only for keeping body and soul together; they are unaffected by acquisition or absence (of alms), they have no house but wander about and stay in a temple or on a heap of grass, on an ant-hill, or at the foot of a tree or on a river bank or in a cave, they have attachment for nothing, they are centred in contemplation of the One Spirit. According to Sūtasaṁhitā (II. 6. 3-10) it is only haṁsa and paramahaṁsa that give up śikhā and the sacred thread. - [Previous: v3.c46.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46.44) - [Next: v3.c46.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46.46) - [Up: v3.c46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46) ## Cites (2) - [Jābālopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.sannyasa.jabala) — Sanskrit - [Sūtasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.sutasamhita) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46.45) · Pramāṇa