Indian Education

The price of a mug of beer the shape of a lady's farthingale the life of the people in short —this was of more consequence than the Wars of the Roses. [...] Prayer for the welfare of the child ends the ceremony.* For ten days the prayers for the moral and physical welfare of the child are regularly uttered in the house and on the eleventh come tgether all the relatives and friends of the family to name the little thing to distinguish it from all others. [...] Now the Guru and Shishya (pupil) pray unto the Glorious Living Lord the Support and the Life of the Universe the Giver of Peace and the Master of Vows to give them strength to keep the vows which they undertake at the time. [...] The special features of the Vedarambha are the teaching of the most sacred of the Vedic hymns—the Gayatri—to the pupil giving him the externals of a Brahmachari (student) Acharya's gazing intently into his eyes to influence him in a subtle and mystic way the father's parting discourse apprizing the child of laws of Brahmacharya and impressing upon him the necessity of following them the child' [...] The whole of the light comes over the wall from the aperture between the wall and the roof.