The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s17.13

c5.s17.13

12. The three books which are most common in all the schools, and which are used indiscriminately by the several castes, are the *Ramayanum*, *Maha Bharata*, and *Bhagvata*; but the children of the manufacturing class of people have in addition to the above, books peculiar to their own religious tenets; such as the *Nagalingayna Kutha*, *Vishvakurma Poorana*, *Kumalesherra Kalikamahata*; and those who wear the Lingum such as the *Busvapoorana*, *Raghavankunkauya Geeroja Kullana*, *Unabhavamoorta*, *Chenna Busavaswara Poorana*, *Gurilagooloo*, etc., which are all considered sacred, and are studied with a view of subserving their several religious creeds.