The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c10.34

c10.34

Hither flocked the sons of kings, aristocrats, priests and plutocrats for education.² Sometimes, indeed, princes were educated at home. In the Gâmaṇicaṇḍa Jâtaka (II, 297), a king himself instructs the prince in the three Vedas and in all worldly duties. The Tilamuṭṭhi Jâtaka (II, 277), however, says that “the kings sent their sons, although in their own city there lived a world-renowned teacher, to a great distance over the borders of the kingdom for learning the sciences, and they thought, in this way their pride and haughtiness will be broken, they will learn