Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.s6.6

c12.s6.6

**Places banned for Study.** There are specified certain circumstances under which study is not permitted. One must not study in the following *places*: a burial ground, extremity of a village, a high road, a village in which a corpse lies or Chaṇḍālas live, or a forest if a corpse or a Chaṇḍāla is in sight. Nor must one study during impurity when his near relations have died, or when he has partaken of a funeral repast or of dinner on the occasion of a sacrifice offered to men (when the study is stopped for a day and a night). Considerations of health dictate stoppage of study under certain circumstances, e.g. when the pupil has vomited or emits a foul smell or suffers from sour eructations, or when he has taken his evening meal.