Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c27.5

c27.5

The history of Nāgasena calls up and indeed transports us to the old world atmosphere of education and learning which we breathe in the Brāhmaṇas, and Upanishads, with its myriads of wandering scholars diffusing culture through the country, its intellectual tournaments, its learned debates at the courts of its learned kings, its hermitages and sylvan seats of education and the like. The spread of culture, whether Brahmanical or Buddhist, was proceeding on common lines.