History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.965

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Hārīta, Dakṣa¹⁸⁷⁸ (I. 7) and others mention these two varieties, while Yāj. I. 49, Vedavyāsa I. 41 and Viṣṇu Dh. S. 28. 46 name and describe the *naiṣṭhika*. Manu II. 243-244, Yāj. I. 49-50, Vas. VII. 4-5 provide that a perpetual Vedic student should stay with his teacher till his own death, that on the teacher's death he should stay with the teacher's son or the teacher's wife or should tend fire, that if he curbs his senses till his death, he reaches the world of *brahma* (immortality) and is not born again. This was a very difficult mode of life, there were great temptations as the flesh is weak and therefore the Bṛhan-Nāradīya and others prohibited perpetual studenthood. Some works such as the Madanapārijāta (p. 16), the Kalivarjyavinirṇaya of Dāmodara, and the Nir. S. read 'dīrgha-kālam brahmacaryam' in place of 'naiṣṭhikam brahmacaryam' in the Bṛhan-Nāradīya.