Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.s6.44

c12.s6.44

Max Müller calculates that these ten books contain nearly 30,000 lines, with each line reckoned as thirty-two syllables. According to his informant, this course was to be finished in eight years. Now, "a pupil studies every day during the eight years except on the holidays, the so-called *anadhyāya*, non-reading days. There being 360 days in a lunar year, the eight years would give him 2,880 days. From this 384 holidays have to be deducted, leaving him 2,496 work-days during the eight years." On this computation, a student of the Rigveda has to learn about twelve slokas a day, a sloka of thirty-two syllables.