1 1-2. 'Waters are ye by name; happy ones are ye by name; sappy ones are ye by name; undecaying ones are ye by name; fearless ones are ye by name; immortal ones are ye by name. Of you, being such, may I partake; receive me into your favour'—with these words (the teacher) makes the student sip water three times,
2 2. And hands over to him the staff with the five
4 4. After (the teacher) has led him round the fire, turning his right side towards it, (the student) goes through the village to beg food.
5. (Let him beg,) however, of his mother first,
6. Or of a woman who will not refuse.
7 7. Having announced the alms to his teacher, he may eat (the food himself) with the master's permission.
8. The daily putting on of fuel, the going for alms, the sleeping on the ground, and obedience to the teacher: these are the standing duties of a student.
67:1-2 6, 1, 2. Râmakandra: '. . . with this Mantra which the teacher tells him, and which he (the student) pronounces, he sips water
68:3 Comp. I, 14, 13-15.
68:4 4 seq. On the student's begging of alms compare the more detailed rules in Pâraskara II, 5; Âpastamba I, 3, &c.
68:7 Comp. the passages quoted by Professor Bühler on Âpastamba I, 3, 31 (S.B.E., vol. ii, p. 22).
