Ancient Indian Education: An Inquiry into its Origin, Development, and Ideals c5.8

c5.8

*Warriors.*—It seems most likely that as time went on the ‘study of the Veda’ for the Kshatriyas and Vaiśyas became still more attenuated, and that their education was more and more confined to those subjects which had a more direct bearing on their future calling. It has been shown in the previous chapter how the special schools of law, grammar, etc., began to grow out of the six Angas, somewhere about the fifth century B.C. The *Dharmasūtras* are connected with *kalpa*,¹ and they contain not only the beginnings of law afterwards developed in the *Dharmaśāstras*, but also instruction on the duties of the king. This was no doubt the germ of the science of politics which was afterwards developed in the works known as *Nītiśāstras* and *Arthaśāstras*.