Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c15.38

c15.38

Along with the *Vidyādhana* or gains of learning as acquired in the various ways explained above, the necessary implements or appliances of learning or of arts are also to be deemed impartible, e.g. “books and the like in the study of the Vedas, etc.”, or “pencils and tools” for the study of the fine arts. Books are “not to be shared by ignorant brethren. So what is adapted to the arts belongs to artists, not to persons ignorant of the particular art”.