snātaka | स्नातक | snAtaka
snātaka | स्नातक | 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 | समावर्तन |; three kinds of Snātakas are named, 1. a vidyā-sn˚ | विद्या-स्न्˚ |, q.v., 2. a vrata-sn˚ | व्रत-स्न्˚ | [who has completed the vows, such as fasting, continence &c., without the Vedas], 3. a vidyā-vrata-sn˚ | विद्या-व्रत-स्न्˚ | or uBaya-sn˚ | उBअय-स्न्˚ | [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).