Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c15.33

c15.33

**Upanyāsa.** According to (2), the intellectual contest or examination is held, and the superiority of learning is proved, in the field of *Upanyāsa* which is "explained in the *Madanaratna* to be the recitation of the Vedas in the several modes of stringing together the different *padas* or words such as *Krama*, *Jaṭā*, etc. Others say it means the exposition of abstruse topics in an assembly" [*Vyāvahāra-Mayūkha*¹]. The prize of victory offered is in accordance with established tradition and approved precedent and practice as shown in the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* already referred to.