The present book is a collection of three monographs viz. education in the Atharva Veda, Education in the Vishnu Purana and Svadhyaya in the Vedic and Post-Vedic literature, the education system of India is first adumbrated in the Atharva-Veda. Of all the Vedas, the complex Atharva-Veda appears to be the most important source for the quest of educational information about very early ages. The Puranas are full of episodes having educational implications ...
