बन्धुपुत्रमनुमोदयित्वानवेक्ष्यमाणो द्वन्द्वसहः प्रशान्तः । प्राचीमुदीचिं वा निर्वर्तयंश्चरेत पात्री दण्डी युगमात्रावलोकी । शिखी मुण्डी चोपवीती कुटुम्बी यात्रामात्रं प्रतिगृह्णन्मनुष्यात्
bandhuputramanumodayitvānavekṣyamāṇo dvandvasahaḥ praśāntaḥ | prācīmudīciṃ vā nirvartayaṃścareta pātrī daṇḍī yugamātrāvalokī | śikhī muṇḍī copavītī kuṭumbī yātrāmātraṃ pratigṛhṇanmanuṣyāt
"Having asked leave of kin and son, not looking back, bearing the pairs of opposites, tranquil — let him go, setting out toward the east or the north, with a bowl and a staff, looking only a yoke's length ahead; with the tuft, shaven, and with the sacred thread, having a household, accepting from a person only enough for the journey."
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It is worth noting the first words: bandhu-putram anumodayitvā, "having asked leave of kin and son." That is, departure requires the permission of those left behind. This detail occurs in codes on renunciation and is worth setting apart, for it distinguishes departure from flight.
A person who has left in secret has left behind those who needed him; and everything he gains is gained at their expense. A person who has been released departs free; and so consent is not a formality but a condition of purity. The Vaiṣṇava side holds firmly to this, and it is worth citing her usual argument.
She says: renunciation that causes harm is hiṃsā, "injury," cloaked in piety; and that departure before settling the three debts is flight, was discussed when reading the sixth verse. Let us add a word that stands unexpectedly in this list of marks: kuṭumbī, "having a household, having a family." In the code of the wanderer it is strange, and it is interpreted two ways: either "having belongings, like a householder," or — more likely — "regarding everyone as his own kin."
The second reading fits with yuga-mātra-avaloki, "looking a yoke's length ahead": one who does not trample the living, for he watches his feet. Let us add that here too the tuft and the thread are named — the third time in this book already; the book clearly returns to them deliberately.