Ancient Indian Education: An Inquiry into its Origin, Development, and Ideals c4.134

c4.134

To get a picture of how the task of rote-learning was carried on at least 500 B.C., we can refer to the *Prātiśākhya* of the *Ṛigveda*. This work is considered to belong to the fifth or sixth century B.C., that is, to about the same time as some of the earliest of the Sūtras. Max Müller, quoting this work,¹ says—