Ancient Indian Education: An Inquiry into its Origin, Development, and Ideals c4.124

c4.124

After the course was completed the pupil performed certain bathing ceremonies, and was called a *snātaka*, that is, one who has bathed, and he was now ready to enter upon another of the four *āśramas*. In most cases he would marry and become a *grihastha*, but some passed at once to the state of a *vānaprastha* or *sannyāsī*.