Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c9.s1.7

c9.s1.7

There must have been a considerable amount of secular non-religious education to build up its economic life. It is known for its progress in all departments of national life, economic, political, or religious, its progress in the various arts and crafts of civilized life, in Agriculture, Industry, and Trade. And this progress must have rested ultimately on the foundation of an appropriate system of technical, industrial, and commercial education, which found its outlet in a corresponding diversity of occupations. The Rigveda itself hardly furnishes any direct evidence on such education, but a glimpse of it may be found in the following hymns throwing light on the economic life of the times [ix, 112]:—