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Doctoralc (Bhaja) upon the most successful and competent scholars This list and the highest degrcc 1975 conferred upon the thoroughly competent scholars noted for Icaming and originality in rescarch
6 Tic statc also had a dcprrtment of Education with the Supe nor Pancı7 as its head This officer had the right con to expel a scholar from the country for a period of ticlve years It is also gathered from Buddhistic sources liori che premier with his collcagucs held a conference with hing Suddodhana of kapılavastu when sum moncd by Irm to select the best available tcachers for the education of prince Sıddrartha Thu proics that onc of the ministers in the statc was in charge of the portfolio of cducation in addition to his other responsibility much after the practice of modern goi ctnments. The state accordicd its close co-operation to the great agencies of edu calion by providing thein with training-grounds for military exercise parks for recacation and so forth Education was distinctly a con ccrt of the statc
7 Tlic Brahmanıc and the Art schools flourished in the samc city and the rigid practice of attending the former institution before adınıssion into the latter was not universally followed by the tice born
8 The Jaina fathers made their monasteries a cosmopoliton institution of leaming offering instructions on the Vedas the Angas the Buddhistic Literature ctc. thus making their seminaries the mele ing pots of culture
9 Industry had Associations of its own The merchants the artizans and other workers were all organized under their own guilds which had their codes of ethics and byc laws subject to their general approval of the statc The merchants Association had jurisdiction over wider regions with various departments each under a specialist. The guilds according to Bșhaspati must have supervisors Sometimes commission was appointed by the king to assist the merchants
10 The church the school and industry enjoyed autonomy and the State intervened sparingly
11 The Jaina educational systems as described in the Jaina litera ture were based on sound psychology The Self and Society were the two fundamental basis upon which the entire educational curricula were based The psychological factors included physical, emotional
