Jaina System of Education

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

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Slic though. No doubt my fatlıcı has found heic a budc-groomi fit for me, as foi the manage liaving to bc peisoimed this very day, it mcans that to day is an auspicious day, so the manage must take place to day Is for the order that Visha is to be given, in luis cagerness lic has rulich an anusuala insicud of ihc long a' so I will pul il right, Having thus icilcuul, she took some collyrium from hci cyes and made the leucri msicad of a dol, and scalmg inc Icici up again, she left Il as it has and went home"!!! I hc 111-School was attended not only by the ha salia and the Vasia guls, but also by then Bralımın sisteis prior 10 then Icaining lhe Veilie sicMCY "Thus it porcs clearly that even in Buddlust period 11 became the fasluon among thc Brahmins cspccially the guls 10 aliend the ici naculul schools before recciving instruc11on in the Vedic sciences 'She, loo, faring in thic past as the fore menlioned Sisters, was, in this Buddha age, born m the kingdom of thic Kuns at the town of hammas.damma, in a Bialmın family And when slic hrad Icaint from some of ihem then Arts and sciences, sho cnici cd the orde of the Miganthas ""
lle have also authoritate cudence in the Shandapuranı supporuing the viens that a Brahmi gul, daughici of Hai iswami of Bcharcs jomc! ihc dil-school ulcic shc cxcclled in fic arts 16 The universal populainy os dancing and music is clearly slicssed in the Agnipuana thich speaks lughly of llc lcachci of Fine Arts and assigns him a icsicience in the hcaien !
Education of all grades from the pumary to the higher was no! denied cven to the mentals in socicly duung the Jama period of which wc harc evidence in the Prabanchacinlāmam The females in the higher institutions of Icaining icceived scculai education We learni from thc Prabandhalosa, vol I, that Madanamanjari, the daughter of king Kuntibhoja of Vijayapura was veised in the higher bianches of lcaining and she wrotc from behind the scicen five hundied ślokas of a book composed by a Digambaia saint This instance proves that the princess was competent enough to bc cngaged even as a scribe "194
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Kathākosa, p 172 Psalms of the Early Sisters, p 57 Shandlapurāna, 4th canto, cdited by Kälıkışna Mandal, p 729. Agnipurānam, edited by Pandit Panchānan Tarhalatna, p 402, verse 54.