Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.s2.18

c12.s2.18

Thus the standing duties to be performed by the student in the interests of his teacher and of his own discipline and moral life were begging, fetching fuel, water, and flowers and other articles for sacrifice, and tending the sacred fire. These duties were more of the nature of services rendered to the teacher, but there were others more directly connected with his own life. We have already considered the regulations prescribed regarding the student’s diet. We shall now consider those regarding his dress, the luxuries he must avoid, his general behaviour, the habits he must eschew or cultivate, and the like.