Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 78
अधीत्य वेदान्वेदौ वा वेदं वापि क्रमाद्द्विजः । अप्रस्खलद्ब्रह्मचर्यो गृहाश्रममथाश्रयेत्
adhītya vedānvedau vā vedaṃ vāpi kramāddvijaḥ | apraskhaladbrahmacaryo gṛhāśramamathāśrayet
Nachdem er die Veden ordnungsgemäß studiert hat—vier, oder zwei, oder auch nur einen, der rechten Folge gemäß—soll der Zweimalgeborene, dessen Brahmacarya nicht wankte, sodann in den Āśrama des Gṛhastha (Hausvaters) eintreten.
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Frame audience (sages/pilgrims)
Scene: A young brahmacārin with staff and waterpot studies palm-leaf manuscripts before a guru; behind him, a symbolic doorway opens into a household with sacred fire, indicating the rightful transition to gṛhastha after disciplined study.
FAQs
Life should follow dharmic stages: disciplined study and celibate training first, then household responsibility entered without moral lapse.
The verse belongs to the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī instruction, where personal dharma is taught as befitting the sacred city’s way of life.
A dharmic prescription is given: after completing Vedic study with unbroken brahmacarya, one should formally enter gṛhastha-āśrama.