Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.s1: Dressing of Hair

c12.s1.1

There are rules for the arrangement of the *hair* which were determined not by the individual choice of the student but by the custom of his family, school, or country. The following ways of arranging the hair are mentioned, viz. shaving the head, wearing the hair tied in a braid, or keeping merely a lock on the crown of the head tied in a braid (shaving the other portions of the head) [*Āpa.*, i, 2, 31–2; 30, 8, etc.].