Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.38

c12.38

**Education Compulsory.** These penances and penalties attaching to the violation of this primary obligation of Upanayana only show to what extent education was valued by Hindu society and how it was sought by law to make education universal and compulsory among all the three castes which made up Aryan society in those days. They also imply by contrast the supreme efficacy of Upanayana as a purifying influence, a factor of moral and spiritual uplift.