Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.s3: Duties of Student

c12.s3.1

According to Āpastamba [i, 2, 5, 9–10], the duties of a student consist in acts pleasing to the spiritual teacher, the observance of rules conducive to his own welfare and industry in studying. “Acts other than these need not be performed by a student” (such as pilgrimages and the like, according to the commentator, thus showing the puritanic austerity of the discipline which won’t allow even these innocent diversions because they are for the householders and aged people). We have already considered the first class of these duties, viz. the services to be rendered to the teacher. Now we shall consider the second class of duties connected with the student’s own welfare, from which we can gather his daily routine.