Education in Ancient India c20.5

c20.5

Capitals, as education centres, 103. Caste system, its influence on education, 40-6; and Buddhism, 46-7. and Upanayana time, 272-3; and *Sāvitrī* Mantra, 278-9; and professions, 40-1. Character, formation of, 10-11, 66-7; Indian, estimate of, 244-5. *Chaula* and primary education, 267. *Chhurikābandha*, 292-3. Civic duties, and education, 248-9. Classes, their strength, 82-3. Co-education, 211. College session, its duration, 85-6. Colleges as organised institutions, non-existent in early times, 70-2 and at Taxila, 106 and Benares, 112; but existing at Nālandā, 114-6; Vikramasilā, 126-9; Ennāyirum, 132-3; Tirumukkudul, 133; Tiruvorriyur, 134; Salotgi, 130-2. Commercial education, 195-7. Corporal punishment, 27-28. Courses, their duration, 89-92; their organisation, 88-89-96. Cramming, 161. Creative vein disappears, 254-5.