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∗ On this point the popular view is expressed by R. i. 79. 20: the Vedas, dharma, nīti, dhanurveda, riding, driving, elephant-riding, and gandharvavidyāh (music, etc.), are to be studied (compare R. i. 80. 4, the same gandharvavidyā with polity, writing, and arithmetic, lekhyasamkhyāvid: cf. R. ii. 2. 6). So in ix. 44. 22, after Veda, science of arms, etc., we find vāṇī ca kevalā, as a knight’s knowledge. † Compare Lassen, Ind. Alt. i. 581.