Education in Ancient India c12.s2.t2.2

c12.s2.t2.2

General Condition of the Age : This period can justly be regarded as the most creative period of Hindu culture and literature, arts and sciences. The foundations of whatever is the best in Hindu culture and glorious in Hindu achievements were laid down during this period. Metaphysics made remarkable progress, as is evidenced by the Upanishadic, Jain and Bauddha works; the foundations of almost all the later systems of philosophy were also laid down. Philology and grammar were well developed and the literary activity in the legal literature commenced. Speculations in the sphere of political thought were original and fruitful. Astronomy and mathematics, medicine and surgery, mining and metallurgy began to be cultivated and sculpture and architecture recorded remarkable progress, especially towards the end of the period. Effort was also made to popularise culture and knowledge by transforming the epic of the Bhārata war into an encyclopædia of religion and ethics.