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Vanaprasthashrama (वानप्रस्थाश्रमः) (view source)
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#Valakhilya
#Valakhilya
# Parivrajaka<ref name=":6" />
# Parivrajaka<ref name=":6" />
Dharmasutras - Apastambha, Gautama, Baudhayana and Vasishtha
'''Apastambha Dharmasutra'''
'''Apastambha Dharmasutra'''
* तोयाहार - subsisting on water. Toyaharas subsist only on water.
* तोयाहार - subsisting on water. Toyaharas subsist only on water.
* वायुभक्ष - subsisting on air. Vayubhakshas do not eat at all.<ref name=":6" />
* वायुभक्ष - subsisting on air. Vayubhakshas do not eat at all.<ref name=":6" />
According to the Arthashastra, Vanaprasthas, forest recluses, were allotted parts of forest for their habitation and could take salt free of charge for their own consumption.<ref name=":6" />
== Bhagavata Purana==
== Bhagavata Purana==
==Manusmrti ==
==Manusmrti ==
From 6.1 to 6.24 is the description of the proper time for Vanaprastha, the Vanaprasthashrama of a person who keeps the fires (Agnihotra and Grhya), what he should wear, how he should grow his hair and nails, how he should keep various vows and practise harsher and harsher austerities.(If he is not accompanied by his wife, can he keep the fires ?)
From 25-30 is the description of a Vanaprastha who has internalised the fires (therefore does not keep the regular fires) and who does not stay at one place, sustains himself on just adequate food, and studies the upanishads for self-realisation, and for increasing his knowledge, penance and purification of the body. (This step can be construed to follow the earlier stage of the settled Vanaprastha [c.f. Vasishta Dharmasutra 9.11] or alternatively of a person not accompanied by his wife.
31-32 show the method of quitting the body. After this, the person obtains brahmaloka, he is even respected there and that brahmaloka is even greater than Svarga; but still he does not obtain Svarajyam (union with brahman). Svarajyam according to Medhatithi is obtained only in the fourth ashrama.<ref name=":6" />
When should one take to Vanaprasthashrama ?
When should one take to Vanaprasthashrama ?
== Vasishtha Dharmasutra ==
== Vasishtha Dharmasutra ==
वानप्रस्थो जटिलश्चीराजिनवासाः ||१ || ग्रामं चा न प्रविशेत् ||२ || न फालकृष्ट-मधितिष्ठेत् ||३|| अकृष्टं मूलफलं संकिन्वीत ||४|| ऊर्ध्वरेताः ||५ || क्षमाशयः ||६ || मूलफलभैक्षेणाश्रमागतमतिथिम मभ्यर्चयेत् ||७ || दद्यादेव न प्रतिगृह्णीयात् ||८ || त्रिषवणकोपस्पर्शी ||९ || श्रामाणकेनाग्निमाधायाहिताग्निः ||१० || वृक्षमूलिक ऊर्ध्वं षड्भ्यो मासेभ्योऽनग्नि-रनिकेतः ||११|| दद्यादेव पित्रुमनुष्येभ्यः | स गच्छेत्स्वर्गमानन्त्यमित्यानन्त्यम् ||१२ ||<ref>Alois Anton Fuhrer (1883), [https://archive.org/details/vasistadharmasutraaloisantonfuhrerbss1883_202003_400_R/page/n39/mode/2up?view=theater Sri Vasishta Dharmashastram], Bombay: Government Central Book Depot.</ref>
वानप्रस्थो जटिलश्चीराजिनवासाः ||१ || ग्रामं चा न प्रविशेत् ||२ || न फालकृष्ट-मधितिष्ठेत् ||३|| अकृष्टं मूलफलं संकिन्वीत ||४|| ऊर्ध्वरेताः ||५ || क्षमाशयः ||६ || मूलफलभैक्षेणाश्रमागतमतिथिम मभ्यर्चयेत् ||७ || दद्यादेव न प्रतिगृह्णीयात् ||८ || त्रिषवणकोपस्पर्शी ||९ || श्रामाणकेनाग्निमाधायाहिताग्निः ||१० || वृक्षमूलिक ऊर्ध्वं षड्भ्यो मासेभ्योऽनग्नि-रनिकेतः ||११|| दद्यादेव पित्रुमनुष्येभ्यः | स गच्छेत्स्वर्गमानन्त्यमित्यानन्त्यम् ||१२ ||<ref>Alois Anton Fuhrer (1883), [https://archive.org/details/vasistadharmasutraaloisantonfuhrerbss1883_202003_400_R/page/n39/mode/2up?view=theater Sri Vasishta Dharmashastram], Bombay: Government Central Book Depot.</ref>
Forest hermit - he should wear matted hair and a garment of bark or skin. He should not enter a village. or step on ploughed land. He should gather uncultivated roots and fruits; observe chastity; be full of patience; and when guests come to his hermitage, honour them almsfood or roots and fruits. He should only give and not receive and bathe at dawn, noon and dusk.
After establishing the sacred fire according to the hermit procedure, he should become a person who maintains sacred fire. He live at the foot of a tree. After six months, he lives homeless and without fire. He should make offerings to gods, ancestors and men.
He will thus attain an endless heavenly abode.
Vasishta recommends the transformation of a fire-keeping forest hermit into one without fire after six months of forest stay. In Manu (6.25) also we can see this transformation. However, we do not see Vasishta describing the procedure for throwing away the body (c.f. Manu 6.31-32)<ref name=":6" />
==Vanaprastha for Women==
==Vanaprastha for Women==