Garhashtya

The Rig Veda is one of the oldest religious texts. This Rig Veda manuscript is in Devanagari via Wikipedia

Garhashtya is the second Hindu asrama¹ (Vedic stage of life) in which the male generally enters into the marriage bond as a sacred duty and exercise in sexual self-control.

In this stage the man becomes a householder, replete with children and fulfils his dharma by taking a job according to his caste position.

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¹ In Hinduism this is the traditional belief, stemming from the Veda, that spiritual aspirants belonging to the “twice born” castes should proceed through four asrama, or stages of life. These stages are: brahmacharya, garhashtya, vanaprashta and sannyasa.

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