m. one who has bathed or performed ablutions (id est a Brahman who, after performing the ceremonial lustrations required on his finishing his studentship as a brahma-cārin- under a religious teacher, returns home and begins the second period of his life as a gṛha-stha-Seesamāvartana-;three kinds of snātaka-s are named, 1. a vidyā-sn-q.v,2. a vrata-sn-[who has completed the vows, such as fasting, continence etc., without the veda-s], 3. a vidyā-vrata-sn-or ubhaya-sn-[who has completed both veda-s and vows], the last is the highest;in a wider sense there may be 9 snātaka-sSee) () .
n. the vows and duties of a snātaka- (ex. plained at full length in the gṛhya-- sūtra-s and giving a clear notion of what was considered good manners in well-educated persons) etc.
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