Education in Ancient India c6.62

c6.62

successive lives in attempting to master all the Vedas. On learning that he proposed to spend his fourth life also for the same purpose, Indra appeared before him, shewed him three hillocks of corn, and taking a handful from each, told him that the three Vedas were infinite and what he had learnt of them in three lives bore the same proportion to what remained to be mastered as his three handfuls bore to the hills of corn lying in front.