Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c9.50

c9.50

The verse x, 71, 8 again mentions the learned Assemblies (*Brāhmaṇa-Saṁghas*, as Sāyaṇa calls them) where Brāhmaṇas united in fellowship in Vedic learning (*sakhāyaḥ*) come together (*saṁyajante*) for the purpose of developing further the truths they had realized in their hearts (*hṛidā tashteshu*) or reached by their minds (*manaso javeshu*). They exclude from such assemblies the ignorant who cannot follow their discussions, so that they may have full freedom to wander about unhampered in the realm of speculation (*vicharanti*) and work out their own conclusions (*yathākāmaṁ vedārtheshu viniśchayārthaṁ pravartante*).