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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
‘Vidyāsattraśālāntevāsimandalāni'' has been construed by the commentator to mean -
“the groups of boarders staying in the charity home of education.”
Sattra' in the technical sense may mean a session also. The groups of boarders abiding in the hostels where the educational session was spent by them- this may be a better sense.
The Age for the commencement of a child's education has been recognised as six, his five years required to be spent at home moving at will in playful moods in association with the playmates of the age as is evident from the case of Harivāhana' whose advent of sixth year prompted his sire Meghavāhana to call for the preceptors innately inimical to treading on the unrighteous path, born in the best of the lineages, endowed with blameless sayings ordained by all the scriptures, who had served in the Gurukulas quite judiciously, after having got established an educational institution just within the premises of his own palace in order to bring him under discipline or training, with the tendency to pronounce expressions of letters becoming apparent in him, when a slight polish had come up to his personality.
The Upanayana or initiation into education has been illustrated subscquently. After inviting an assembly of Savants he (i.e. the king initiated him with the investiture thread (marking the beginning of cducation) through them, on an auspicious day and Zodiac after he had performed all that was required to be done so, had performed his ablution, had enscarfed himself in a white cleansed and fine silk garment, had anointed his body with fragrant sandal, unguent, had worn a necklace of pearls, had applied the forehead mark of rocanā dye, had worn on his head a crest chaplet of Mālatī blossoms etc. And they (i.e. the Savants) taught him
1. कृताध्ययनभंगविद्वज्जनविसर्जितानि प्रष्ठीकृतैकैकवठरच्छात्रहस्तार्पितविशालपूर्णकलशानि युगपदुच्चारिताशी:
PERCETAK yere fecift fERHATI-af440Scifi Ibid. Vol. II p. 183. 2. क्षितिपालदारकैः सह क्रीडासुखमनेकप्रकारमनुभवतो निरंकुशप्रचारस्य पंचवर्षाणि तस्यान्त:पुरेऽतिचक्रमुः अवतीर्णे च
षष्ठे किंचिदुपजातदेहसौष्ठवस्य व्यक्तवर्णवचनप्रवृतेर्विनयारोपणाय राजा राजकुलाभ्यन्तर एव कारितानवद्यविद्यागृह: सम्यगासेवितगुरुकुलानामवगताखिलशास्त्रमर्मनिर्मलोक्तियुक्तीनामुत्तमान्नायलब्धजन्मनामसन्मार्गगतिनिसर्गविद्विषां
विद्यागुरूणामहरह: संग्रहमकरोत्। 3. Cp. Bāņa in his Kādambari the case of Candrāpīda, 324454ad1 H ORARI
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p. 128. 4. उपनिन्ये च तेभ्यः शोभने दिनमुहूर्ते निर्वर्तितसमस्तेतिकर्तव्यः स्नातमनुपहतसूक्ष्मक्षौम
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