Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c18.9

c18.9

**Medical Holidays.** Holidays were prescribed. These were the eighth, fourteenth, and new- and full-moon days; morning and evening twilights; when there were thunder, rain, and roar of clouds out of season; time of danger to the country and its king. Study was not also permitted at a crematorium, on an elephant, in a place for execution of convicts, in a field of battle, at a national festival, or in sight of inauspicious omens.