Apprentice
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
apprentice · one who wishes to learn a craft · servant · slave
in the texts
Nāradasmṛti
One learning a craft from a master under a fixed term of residence and service.
The master should teach him, providing food from his own house.
Even after being trained, the apprentice must complete the stipulated period.
He who abandons a master who is teaching him and is without fault shall be forced to remain, and he deserves beating and confinement.
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
Persons bound in servitude or wage labor, whose obligations, freedoms, and payments are legally regulated.
A servant is entitled to wages for as much work as he performs;
One who has been forcibly enslaved or sold by thieves is to be set free;
One who has lapsed from the ascetic life is a slave to the king until death.