Jaina System of Education

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

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JAINA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
was possiblc Nothing is morc alculated to de clop the imagination and broaden the vision than poctry Nothing aan de clop the visual perspective morc cliccucly tlun painting There is no severe indent to accuracy than sculpture Nothing an aid the cxpression of the spirit inorc cliccia cly than architecture and aboic all music is both an cducator and medium of the truc dcpths of the soul To these purcly academic branclics of knowledge acte added the supremely practical sciences of war The following quotation will giic us a faint idca of the statc of things which then prevailed Now thc royal princc up to the time of lus cighth year grew up in the royal palace without any attention to study but from he cighth ycar till his twelfth scar he was trained under the carc of Visvainitra and Khantadeva as #chaic related
But non having completed anche scars and being perfectly ac quainted with all the customary moles of cnjoyment as mcn speak such as hunting riding and driving here and there according to the desire of the cyc or for the gratification of the mind such being the case it came to pass on an occasion that he was visiting the kan hu-garden and whilst thcte amused hinself by wandering in different directions shooting with his box and arrow at directions shooting with his bow and arrow at whatever he pleased and so he separated himself from the Sak ya youths who hcrc also in the ses eral gardens enjoying them selves in the same way!
The higher or the advanced courses in the Art school such as vernacular languages compositions ballad making public speaking the Vedas the Vcdangas astronomy astrology the eight branches of medicine mineralogy and other sciences were pursued by the scholars for intellectual pleasure as well as for economic gain Briefly speaking the whole range of the encyclopaedic courses in Arts were well adjusted to the physical mental and emotional needs of the scholars from their boyhood to carly adolescence and the whole syllabius was classified into four distinct groups VIL 8 Rs Finc Arts military-training academic and scientific courses well organized on the sound basis of child and adolescent psychology beginning with the rudimentary subjects to the gradually increasingly difficult courses. Besides the curricula of the
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