Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c13.17

c13.17

**Relations between Teacher and Pupil.** Next, we have certain expressions indicative of the relations between the teacher and pupil. The same affix is applied to their relationships as to that of blood [iv, 3, 77 and vi, 3, 23]. The pupil is called a *Chhātra* [iv, 4, 62] because, as explained by Patañjali, the preceptor is like an umbrella sheltering the pupil or covering his defects, or the pupil is like an umbrella maintaining his preceptor. The pupil must secure the affection of his teacher for the sake of his own welfare both here and hereafter [Patañjali on iii, 1, 26 (15)].