Jaina System of Education

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

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section aimed at by those who wcic icsponsible for moulding the cultural desliny of India in that golden age of Indian culine and coul:. zation
In Kundmapura, a subub of Varsili, Verlue or higher institution of leainmg was superimposed upon the ill-school This ric Icaini from the drcam vluch the mothei of Lord Vahüvira s.11 In this postgradualc institution of Icarming the curricula included iic Vedas, the Vedāngas, history. lcgends, plulosopliy, maiheinaucs, gramman, prosodly, asionomy and saci cu tens of ilic Bialumms 'On kaung the sure of childhooil he will be perfect in all the mferuor branches of knowlege, and afici entering on the state of youth. lie will soon become able to rcpcai, dcfend, and uphold the four Vedas, the Rig Veda, Yaju - Veda, Sānia-Veda, and the Atlanta-Veda, and the luhāsa (legendary history), which is considered a filul Verla, and the Nighani (le vicon), whuch may be icimed a sivil: the body livinily with all its inembers, know also then luden meanmg llc will be acquainic with the si subsidiary members of the Vaca, and the soili plulosophical system (the Sänkhya), with the mathematics, the institutc which diccis 11s riles and ceremonics, graminai, piosody, analysis of words, astronomy, and othcı Bialimanıcal sciplines especially that clating to the staic of an ascelic , in all of these he will become a proficient "!"
Oudh -Di Hemacandia gries uis a uud kica of the curricula of studies pui suced by the ideal punce Sagua Thuis is slightly diffcicnt from the curricula followed by the punces Goyama and Mcghã All the same it is very vast, compichensive and almost occanic The following calacl will give us an idca of the vast range of knowlcilge pursued by the idcal prince “On the other hand, al thic king's command, Sagara began to go to a teachei on an auspicious day, which was celebiated by a festival In a few days Sagara absorbed the scicnccs, giammar, etc, like thic occan, thc watcis os niveis Without esfoit Saumitrı (Sagaia) took the wealth of rhetoric from the teacher, like a torch taking light from anothei torch. He made his own slcep accomplish its purpose by poems, praises of passionless saints, floweis on the creepeis of rhetouc, elıxır for the car An ocean of learning and intelligence, hc giasped unhesilalingly all the works of saci cd authority, like deposits made by himself.
30 The Kalpasūlia And Nava Tattva, p. 27