And that foremost of Brāhmaṇas will not know anything else save following his father. And, O king, it is rumoured abroad, and also always said by the Vipras, that the high-souled one will practise (Those that assume the staff and the kamaņdalu are reckoned the first order; while those that continue to live with their wives are considered as next in worth.) the two modes of Brahmacarya life.
नान्यं जानाति विप्रेन्द्रो नित्यं पित्रनुवर्तनात्। द्वैविध्यं ब्रह्मचर्यस्य भविष्यति महात्मनः॥ लोकेषु प्रथितं राजन् विप्रैश्च कथितं सदा।