[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Ancient Indian Education: An Inquiry into its Origin, Development, and Ideals](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.keay-1918) › c4.168 # Ancient Indian Education: An Inquiry into its Origin, Development, and Ideals c4.168 Ancient Indian Education: An Inquiry into its Origin, Development, and Ideals c4.168 - **Language:** English ### [c4.168](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.keay-1918.c4.168) These \*parishads\* were in some respects like judicial assemblies, and in others like ecclesiastical synods, but as those who composed them were most of them also teachers, they correspond to a certain extent to the associations of teachers in the Middle Ages of Europe which developed into universities. Thus not only were different faculties represented, but even a student was a member of the \*parishad\*. The settlement of Brāhmans proficient in different branches of the ancient learning in various centres must have meant the gathering together also of a number of students who were receiving instruction from them, and thus these \*parishads\* would form the nucleus of something corresponding to a university. - [Previous: c4.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.keay-1918.c4.167) - [Next: c4.169](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.keay-1918.c4.169) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.keay-1918.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.keay-1918.c4.168](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.keay-1918.c4.168) · Pramāṇa