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Vanaprasthashrama (वानप्रस्थाश्रमः) (view source)
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In the Vanaprashthashrama (tatra), a person knowledgeable in dharma upholds the duties of Vanaprastha by studying the Aranyaka shastras.<ref name=":4">Pandit Ramnarayanadatta Shastri Pandey, Mahabharata (Khanda 5-Shantiparva), Gorakhpur: Gita Press.</ref>
In the Vanaprashthashrama (tatra), a person knowledgeable in dharma upholds the duties of Vanaprastha by studying the Aranyaka shastras.<ref name=":4">Pandit Ramnarayanadatta Shastri Pandey, Mahabharata (Khanda 5-Shantiparva), Gorakhpur: Gita Press.</ref>
=== Mokshadharma Parva, Shanti Parva ===
In the Mokshadharma Parva from the Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata, Bhishma enlightens Yudhishthira with the knowledge about Vanaprasthashrama that was given to Shukadeva by his father Maharshi Vyasa.
It is said that one should take to Vanaprasthashrama when one's hair starts to whiten, wrinkles form on the skin and one's progeny begets a progeny. In such conditions, one should retire to the forest to spend the 3rd phase of one's life as a vanaprastha.<ref name=":4" />
...प्रेक्षापूर्वं यदा पत्त्येद्वलीपलितमात्मना।।12.250.3
अपत्यस्यैव चापण्यं वनमेव तदाऽऽश्रयेत्।।12.250.4
तृतीयमायुषो भागं वानप्रस्थाश्रमे वसेत्।...<ref name=":5">Mahabharata, Shanti Parva, [https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D-12-%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5-250 Adhyaya 250]</ref>
In the Vanaprasthashrama, one is directed to worship the same Agni worshipped during the grhasthashrama and engage in the worship of the deities.<ref name=":4" />
...तानेवाग्नीन्पस्त्विरेद्यजमानो दिवौकसः।।12.250.5<ref name=":5" />
A Vanaprasthi is advised to eat appropriately once in the 6th part or 3rd prahara of the day and avoid intoxicated behaviour. Upholding Agnihotra, Go-seva and all the components of Yajnas as in the grhasthashrama is stated as the dharma of a Vanaprasthi.<ref name=":4" />
नियतो नियताहारः षष्ठभुक्तोऽप्रमत्तवान् । तदग्निहोत्रं ता गावो यज्ञाङ्गानि च सर्वशः ॥६॥<ref name=":5" />
=== Uma Shankara Samvada, Anushasana Parva, Mahabharata. ===
=== Uma Shankara Samvada, Anushasana Parva, Mahabharata. ===