Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.66

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⁵ J., IV, pp. 131 *ff.*
6. Under the older Brāhmaṇical system as found in the *Dharmasūtras* and other works, 'from seven and a half to thirteen, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty-six, forty-eight or even more years are demanded, till their study be perfected.' Hopkins says: '... and we shall be antecedently disposed to think that the students of warrior and people-caste were permitted to give up study under easier conditions, as they were easily freed from penances obligatory on priests.' J. A. O. S., 13, p. 108.