Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c15.40

c15.40

**Property accruing to a person in pupilage.** The institution of the young pupil leaving his home and parents to live with his preceptor for education had its own legal consequences which are duly provided for. For it may so often happen that during this period of the pupil’s tuition, “wealth may descend to him by inheritance and become his property." In such a case Manu thus lays down the law: "The king should guard the property which descends to an infant by inheritance until he returns from the house of his preceptor."