Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c28.2

c28.2

**The Jātakas.** We shall now discuss the ampler evidence of the *Jātakas* on the system of education, the centres and conditions of learning to which they refer. The *Jātakas* are, it may be noted, sources of historical information not in the contents or substance of their stories, but in the social background or "setting" of those stories, their inevitable reflection of the contemporary conditions of life.