वैखानसा वालखिल्यौदुम्बरा: फेनपा वने । न्यासे कुटीचक: पूर्वं बह्वोदो हंसनिष्क्रियौ ॥ ४३ ॥
vaikhanasa valakhilyau- dumbarah phenapa vane nyase kuticakah purvam bahvodo hamsa-niskriyau
- vaikhanasah
- the section of men who retire from active life and live on half-boiled meals
- valakhilya
- one who quits his former stock of grains on receipt of more
- audumbarah
- one who lives on what he gets from the direction towards which he starts after rising from bed
- phenapah
- one who lives on the fruits which automatically fall from the tree
- vane
- in the forest
- nyase
- in the order of renunciation
- kuticakah
- life in the family without attachment
- purvam
- in the beginning
- bahvodah
- giving up all material activities and engaging fully in transcendental service
- hamsa
- fully engaged in transcendental knowledge
- niskriyau
- stopping all kinds of activities
The four divisions of retired life are the vaikhanasas, valakhilyas, audumbaras and phenapas. The four divisions of the renounced order of life are the kuticakas, bahvodas, hamsas and niskriyas. All these were manifested from Brahma.