Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.s6.7

c12.s6.7

Lastly, there is an interesting regulation of a different kind for the stoppage of study. "If some of his fellow-students are away on a journey, he shall not study during that day the passage which they learn together" [*Āp.*, i, 3, 11, 11]. "If one pupil has gone on a journey and another stays with the teacher, the study of the Veda shall be 'interrupted until the absentee returns'" [Gautama, xvi, 33].