Jaina System of Education

Author(s): Debendra Chandra Das Gupta
Publisher: Bharti Mahavidyalaya

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JAIVA SISTEM OP EDUCATION
and (3) the Monastic schools (Jawi) cxistcd side by side and con iribuced to the stability and progress of the existing social and poliu cal conditions of the people No doubt the Buddhist monasteries or institutions of Icarning dit much for the spread of Buddhist and Bmlimanic cultures and their international reputation invited scholars from distant sorcign countries But Buddhist institutions of learning wull forin no item of our discussion as these are not referred to in Juna litcraturcs Perhaps it will be conicnicnt to style our problem *Lducational System in Ancient India as found in Jaina literatures instcad of Jaina Exlucation Owing to paucity of inatcrials in Jama literatures il 1111 sometimes be necessary to Telcr to Sanskrit and Bud dhist litcratures in order to complete our picture of the Jaina Syslem of Education