a brāhmaṇa who performs the six daily duties - a) studying of the vedas, teaching of the vedas, offering sacrifices, conducting of sacrifices for others, giving of gits, and accepting of gifts or, b) religious bathing, repetition of prayers three times a day, worshipping of the Supreme Being, daily oblations to the gods, sages and dead ancestors and oblations of fuel, rice etc. to fire, and worshipping of the secondary gods either at home or in temples.