Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c17.44

c17.44

**Āruṇi.** Takshaśilā was a noted centre of learning. The story is told of one of its teachers named Dhaumya who had three disciples named Upamanyu, Āruṇi, and Veda. Āruṇi hailed from Pañchāla and was an ideal student in respect of devotion to his teacher, under whose orders to stop a breach in the watercourse in his field, Āruṇi, finding every other means unavailing, threw his own body into the breach. His devotion was recognized by his teacher by giving him the appellation of *Uddālaka* ¹ (*from uddāraka*).