Excerpt from Historical GleaningsV1] aya, with Guierat by some writers cannot be at all correct. In several places in the Pali J atakae} there are references to highly renowned teachers living at Taxila and to the various subjects taught there. In one of the J'atakas, a very beautiful picture of the student life of. Those days has been drawn (jataka, p. A son of the King of Benares went to arts axila from a renowned teacher. He carrie gold coins as teacher's fee. 1 In those days, there were two classes of pupils - (i) those who used to pay for their education, (ii) those who served the1r teacher during the day-time in lieu of payment and received lessons during the night. The paying pupils used to live in the house of their teacher like his eldest son. Corporal punishment for offences was not unknown in those days: there is a reference to a prince being beaten by his preceptor for an offence. For the Cittasambhfita jataka, 'l it appears that lessons were given to the upper classes only, namely, to the Brahmins and Ksatriyas, for it has been said there' that two Candala youths disguised as Brahmins were learning sciences from a teacher, but were expelled when found out. Of the subjects taught, the three Vedas and eighteen Vijjas are frequently mentioned. The three Vedas are the Rigveda, Samaveda, and Yajurveda. The Atharvaveda as the fourth Veda has been men tioned nowhere in the Pali Jatakas. In many placess pupils have been described as learning sippas (sias) only, but the word sippa appears to have been used in the comprehensive sense of learning. 1 Jataka (faiisbofi), Vol. VI, p. 347, Vol. I, pp. 402, 463, 317.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.