Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c17.5

c17.5

**Their interest mainly military.** The purely educational evidence of the Epics is, however, very meagre in comparison with the sizes of the works or the vast quantity of sociological data they furnish. This is of course due to the interest of the two Epics lying mainly in the realm of action and not in that of thought. The military interest of the Epics predominates over the intellectual. The predominant part in their history is also taken by the military and ruling caste. The bulk of the intellectual life of the country centred in the hermitages and homes of Ṛishis and Brahmins, which do not receive notice in the Epics except when they are connected with the course of their story.