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The word 'Samvartana' generally means 'return', especially a pupil's return home after finishing his course of holy studies. The derivation of the word Samvartana is "Sa bt lyu". There are four stages in human life and these are called as Caturrama. These are-Brahmacarjya, Grhasthya, Vnaprastha and Sanysa. Among these four stages of life the Brahmacarjya is very important and significant stage of life. It is the stage of gaining knowledge which is the ultimate property for a human being. In the Vedic period the students had to stay in Gurugha i.e at the residence of the teacher. Then the student is called as Brahmacr. Along with their studies, the students had to do some household activities too in the Gurugha. After completing their studies they had to return to their Grhasthya stage of life. So, at the close of the Brahmacarjya stage, there was performed a special kind of rite called Samvartana and recognized the student as graduated. The concept of Samvartana is broadly discussed in the Daakarmakaumud of Ptmbara SiddhntaVgia Bhacrjya and he gives a detail procedure of this ceremony. He is a well known smti digest writer of the Kmarpa school of Dharmastra. The work Daakarmakaumud is basically based on the performance of Daakarma. Here in this present paper an attempt has been made to highlight the concept of Samvartana in the Daakarmakaumud as well as it will be tried to give a modern relevance of the concept of Samvartana.