Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c33.1

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Abhimanyu, military prowess of, 338, 339 *Abhiniveśa*, explanation of, 313 Abhipratārin Kāksha-seni, Later Vedic teacher, 118 *Abhyāsa* (Practice), 305, 307; aim of, 305; measures for achieving, 311; must be confirmed and established on stable basis, 305 Abidharma, Doctors of, 528 Absolute, the, description as Indra, 44; expansion into on part of the individual, xxiii; final dissolution in, 13; hymns expressing conception of, 40, 41; knowledge of, preparation for attainment to, 99; meditation upon, 264; method of comprehending nature of, 113; various expressions of conception of, 45 Absolutistic school of thought, Yoga capable of assimilation in, 286 Abstract, progress to from concrete, 297 Academic activities higher, 253; titles in Nālandā university, 569 Academies of Science, 367 *Āchārya*, Brahmanical teacher, 406; education under, 219; functions of, 406; kind of teacher defined by title, 200, superior in charge of monks' education, 402; (Preceptor), education under, 219; no acceptance of fees by, 219; praise of, 68; term used to indicate highest type of teacher, 238; conduct of ceremony of monkhood by, 541 Act of Subordination, 447 Action, organs of, emergence from plane of *Manars*, 292 Activity, righteous or unrighteous, three kinds of, 276 Actors (Natas), originators of literature bearing upon, 240 *Adbhūta*, supplement to *Tāṇḍya*, 74 *Adhikāsa* (Gradations of capacity), doctrine of, 286 Adhvaryu, priest of old Rigvedic religion, 61, 62; prayer-book of, 64 *Adhyayana*, meaning of, as applied to teaching, 239 *Adi-Purusha*, hymn to (Purusha-Sukta), 46 *Aditi*, manifestation of, 42; and *Diti*, distinction between (footnote), 42 Administration, one principal duty of Kshatryas, 152, 153 Admonition in ceremony of initiation of pupils to Upanayana, 182 Afantu, number of monasteries and Brethren in, 522 Afflictions, five, enumerated, 297 Āgama, attributes of, 299; two features of, 299; value as source of knowledge, 299; verbal instruction, 299 Āgamas, Non-Vedic, 283, 284 *Agnātajnāpanam*, 6 Agni, attributes of, 13, 14 five peoples offering sacrifice to, 52; identification with *Prajapāti*, 10; (or Fire), 7 Agnihotra, ceremony of, xxix; oblation, offering of, 103; worship of Agni, 14, 15 *Agrahāra*, settlement of learned Brahmans, 372 Agrahara of Talgunda, settlement of Brahmin families in, 372 Agriculture, chief pursuit of Vaiśyas, 154; Director of in Ancient India (Kautilya), 365; progress in during Rigvedic Age, 56 *Ahaṁkāra* (Empirical Ego), function of, 293, 294; self-appropriation by, 294; (self-consciousness), 290 Āhavā, earliest Mantra, 3; meaning of, 3; reply to, 3 Ahichchhatra, Buddhist monasteries and Brethren at, 513 Ahiṁsa, Buddhist doctrine of, Brahmanical, 393 Ahinā Āśvatthya, Later Vedic teacher, 119 Ajodyā, number of monasteries and Brethren at, 514 *Aitareya Āraṇyaka*, mention in, of three ways of reciting the Rigveda, 26, 27; regulations governing Vedic studies (quoted), 94, 95; *Brāmana*, geographical origin of, 141; contents of, 74; doctrines of kept secret, 74; of Upanishads in Rigveda, 74; works of, 73 Aitareyakam Āśvalāyana, text of, 73 Aitareyins, *Brāhmaṇa* of, 81; school of, 73