Jaina System of Education

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

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JAINA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
tlic painting He asked for a pur of scissor to cut loves He carved in a borcllcal tlic stalcly swan in the sainc condition as that of a lady swan and strophc in clear icrms to conicy the heart 11
Tlic ancient Juna authontics rightly realised the importance of trai cls or cours as indispensablc agents in the dei clopment of the mind They were to supplement practically thc thcoretical training given in the schools Wc baie cudences of the practice both in the Jaina and thc Jataka litcraturcs
hing Ratnašiklia thus reflected Without travclling to a foreign land onc docs not obtain glory lame knonledge of accomplishments or anytlung So I will certainly go to a forcign land and make trial of my mcmit Then the king fornc a secret plan and at the end of night he left the city 12th his 511 ord for his only companion and went towards the north Then beholding many man cls in villages assem blics towns and citics rclying cr crywhere on the power of his own mcrit the ling at last entered a terriblc wood 11
Though scholars in the art schools used to reside in the house of the teacher such residence was not universal at a subsequent date. Scholars of such schools used to attend the classes from outside We harc clear evidence of it in the "The Life And Stones of the Jaina Savior We learn from this source that one Kşıraladamba a teacher had in his school prince Vasu son of Abhicandra Ling of Sultimati along with his son Parvata and another boy named Narada At night they all studied on the roof of the palace"
But we learn from the Kathakopa that kşirakadamba was the teacher of a school in the city of Campaka This establishes beyond doubt that Kşıraladamba 8 school was not a palace school it was a Brahmanic school In this very land of Bharata in the village of Kusastbala dwelt a Brahmana named Vasudeva his father died while he was a child There he studied with a teacher named Kşırakadamba. He acquired fame among men as a student, and received alms in the lungs palace ** Thus our brief survey of the education of the rulers
71 Haribhadra San Samaraican Raha (First Two Chapters.) p 81 76 The Kathikove p 140
73 Maunce Bloomfield, The Life And Stories of the Jana Savior Partva. natha P 86
74 The Kathikopt p. 18