Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.s4.50

c11.s4.50

**Tending Cattle.** *Tending the house* also was one of his duties. In the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* we read: "Wherefore the students guard their teacher, his house, and cattle" [iii, 6, 2, 15]. In the *Chhāndogya Upanishad* [iv, 4, 5] Satyakāma is sent away with the teacher's herds of cattle into a distant country where he remains for a succession of years during which four hundred cows had become a thousand. The duty of guarding the teacher's cattle grazing on their pasture grounds is also referred to in the *Śāṅkhāyana Āraṇyaka* [vii, 19]. In the *Aitareya Āraṇyaka* [iii, 1, 6, 3–4] Tārukshya guards his teacher's cows for a whole year.