Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.2

c11.2

**Sources.** We shall now study Education in the light of the data furnished by the vast body of later Vedic literature, comprising what are called the *Brāhmaṇas*, *Āraṇyakas*, and *Upanishads*. In one sense, it may be stated that Indian Education reached its climax and achieved the highest degree of efficiency and success in this period when it could produce a literature like the Upanishads which are universally admitted to record the utmost possibilities of human speculation regarding some of the ultimate problems of life and metaphysical mysteries. Unfortunately, the evidence on the subject is comparatively meagre and not given in any one place in any of the numerous works to be studied for it. One can only find bits of evidence here and there and piece together the scattered bits for constructing a system that may be understood.