Jaina System of Education

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

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JAIMA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
अस्मत्पुत्री मदनमसरी नाम लिखिप्यति जयनिकान्तरिता सती। दिगम्यरेण प्रन्या कत HTTÀ I Thai aurat foreta Io8 Women were also versed in varied languages and costume of diferent countries as the following quotation shoirs "ATSTĀT Ararforera Ti l los factuumitalouuuur
en 1919 Evcn a widow of tender age though icry wise and well versed in all the 7 sastras and shillful in the art of speech is also acquainted with the domes tic work Such 7 learned window not only hecps herself busy with house-Nork but also causes others to be cngaged in such a nork 'पामसस्य च चाम्पलदेनाम्रो घालयिधया घाग्मिनी उचितमा सशालविरा तमया यह घ्यापारान् करोति कारयति ।"20
We alrcady atcd examples of educated ladies secking employment in royal households We may now refer to an instance of an old female cook recciving the blessing of culture The case is given in the following authoritative words When she persisted in this endea vour there was produced in her intellectual abuity and so after she had to a certain extent studied the three Vedas the Raghuvamca the hamasastra of Vātsyayana and the writings of Canakya on morals anul the principles of Government she went with her daughter named Vijaya who was in her fresh youth and learned my
During the period of the ascendency of the Jainas in India it us patent that the Family the Church the School and the State serred as potterful agents for the spread of education among women We are told in the Mabapurana how Sundari a princess learnt various Arts from Bharata thc son of Log Rşabha. Jaina literature does not explicitly refer to the state of education for the lay females in the nunneries but it does to inplıcıtly and we have an incidental reference to princess Gangasena of Gangapura receiving religious instructions froin Chandrayasas a local abbess *
We are quite in the dark about the School buildings and
18 Rajasekhara Suri Prabandhakota, 101I p 64 19. Jbid P 98 20 Ibud p 100 81 Prabandhaantamani p 69 21 kathakosa p 116