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# Education in Ancient India

Educational ideals, teachers and students, curriculum, centres (Takṣaśilā, Nālandā, Kāñcī, agrahāras, maṭhas), women's and technical education; epigraphic endowments.

- **Language:** English
- **Author:** [A. S. Altekar](https://indike.org/pramana/person/altekar-as)
- **Extent:** 1,192 passages, 90,272 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · 2nd ed., Benares: Indian Book Shop 1944; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (A. S. Altekar †1960)

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c1) — 42 parts
- [c2 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c2) — 3 parts
- [c3 Preface to the Second Edition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c3) — 32 parts
- [c4 Chapter II. Some Educational Principles and Postulates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c4) — 77 parts
- [c5 Chapter III. The Teacher and the Student](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c5) — 86 parts
- [c6 Chapter IV.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c6) — 76 parts
- [c7 Chapter V.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c7) — 11 parts
- [c8 Chapter VI. Higher Literary Education: Curriculum, Method of Teaching and Examinations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c8) — 9 parts
- [c9 Chapter VII.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c9) — 6 parts
- [c10 Chapter VIII. Professional and Useful Education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c10) — 6 parts
- [c11 Chapter IX. Female Education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c11) — 3 parts
- [c12 Chapter X. A General Resume](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c12) — 5 parts
- [c13 Chapter XI. Achievements and Failures](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c13) — 19 parts
- [c14 Appendix I. Educational Rituals](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c14) — 8 parts
- [c15 Appendix II. Yajñopavīta or the So-called Sacred Thread](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c15) — 24 parts
- [c16 Appendix III. Convocation Addresses](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c16) — 2 parts
- [c17 Appendix IV](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c17) — 16 parts
- [c18 Appendix V. Technical terms and dates of authors, works and kings](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c18) — 2 parts
- [c19 Select Bibliography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c19) — 6 parts
- [c20 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c20) — 57 parts
- [c21 Abbreviations and Transliteration](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.altekar-1934-2.c21) — 2 parts

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