The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s17.12
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s17.12
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c5.s17.12
11. The other parts of a native education consist in deciphering various kinds of hand writing, in public and other letters, which the school master collects from the different sources; writing common letters, drawing up forms of agreement; reading; fables and legendary tales; and committing various kinds of poetry to memory, chiefly with a view to attain distinctness and clearness in pronunciation, together with readiness and correctness in reading any kind of composition.
Linked texts (6)
- Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Basavapurāṇa — Sanskrit
- Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa — Vālmīki, Sanskrit
- Viśvakarmaśilpa — Viśvakarman, Sanskrit
- Amṛtānubhava — Jñāneśvara, Marathi