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15. It was popular in this country among the people of all classes from the king to the luunbic folk
16 11 included 3 Rs liecratures politics, classical languages of Bralunanıc cultures and the closen Angas of the Jainas
17 7lic church the state and the schools all worked in harmony in cducaung the illucrate adults Extension lccttirc tours in connec tion with thc Jainn church ucrc organized to spread culture and learn ing among tlic mass of both sexcs "The state influence was especially fclt in rcmoi ng allitcracy cicn from the ruler
Wc lavc thus discusseel with you gentlemen in the course of these (cn short lectures hurricdly prepared some of the outstanding educa tional thcorics and practices that were in vogue in ancient India from Rşabla to that of Hemacandra thic last of the great Jaina scholars a prolific writer on various subjects-religious and secular
Any impartial critic will from the points cnumcrated above notice that all the fundamental educational aims and principles were based on those psycliological principles which are most modern-and which arc the ground work of modern Europan and American pedagogy It must be an agrecable surprise to see how our educational philosophy has been choroughly assimilated by the Europeans and the Americans only to be re-exported to us through our learned pedagogues the cul tural ambassadors of their alma melers Even superficial students know hon the translation of the Indian classics-Sanskrit, Buddhistic and Jaina into European languages during the latter half of the eighteenth and the whole of the nineteenth centuries and onwards has placed the whole stock of the knowledge of our ancestors within the casy reach of the West. The East and the West have met together in the realm of cul ture in the field of thought. Into various branches of learning for good or evil cach has influenced the other in the region of educa tional philosophy with which we are especially concerned in these lectures the westerners have borrowed a good deal from India directly and consciously and it is to be regretted even without acknowledgment of the obligation
