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snātaka

m. one who has bathed or performed ablutions (i.e. a Brāhman 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 See samāvartana; three kinds of Snātakas are named, 1. a vidyā-sn°, q.v., 2. a vrata-sn° [who has completed the vows, such as fasting, continence &c., without the Vedas], 3. a vidyā-vrata-sn° or ubhaya-sn° [who has completed both Vedas and vows], the last is the highest; in a wider sense there may be 9 Snātakas See [Mn. xi, 1]), [ŚBr.]; [GṛS.]; [Gaut.]; [Mn. iii, 4] &c. ([IW. 296]).