Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c8.s1.8

c8.s1.8

Teaching was not always carried on at the pansala: the child might be taught at home by a priest or by his own father. In the case of aristocratic families, the incumbent of the family vihāra became the child’s tutor. Otherwise, and especially if there were no pansala near, the father taught his own children in the same way.