Verse 43

³⁷Then, meaning to enter what comes next, having learned all he set out to learn, he gives the teacher his fee and bathes, with the teacher's consent. ³⁸The best of the twice-born should settle into the house or the forest, or else go out wandering. He should go from stage to stage; one who does not keep me for his end should not act otherwise. ³⁹One who wants a household should marry a wife who is his match and is not spoken against, younger than himself in years; first one of his own class, and any other after her in the proper order. ⁴⁰Sacrifice, study and giving belong to all the twice-born. Receiving gifts, teaching, and officiating at the sacrifice belong to the brahmin alone.

⁴¹One who holds the receiving of gifts to be the thing that drives out austerity, splendour and good name should live by the other two only, or, seeing the fault in those two as well, by gleaning grain. ⁴²For this body of a brahmin is not meant for small wants, but for hard austerity here, and for endless happiness after he has gone. ⁴³Living by the gleaning of grain, his thought fully content, taking up that great dharma which has no dust on it, his self given over to me, staying in the house itself and not held too fast by it, he comes to peace.