Essay name: Brahma Purana (critical study)
Author:
Surabhi H. Trivedi
Affiliation: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda / Department of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit
This is an English study of the Brahmapurana鈥攐ne of the eighteen major Puranas which occupies an important place in the Pauranic literature. This study researches the rich an encyclopaedic material for social, religious, philosophical, mythological, political, geographical and literary study found in the Brahma-Purana.
Social Structure
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Duration of the Course 289 There is general unanimity among the surti-writers
that the vedic education should extend over a period of 12
Though the Br. P. does not throw much light on
years.
129 the duration of the course, it states that Katha came to
study different vidyas when he was sixteen years old and
learnt puranas, vedas, sortis and Dharmasthanas (121.7-10).
Again, krsna and Balarama are said to have grasped the whole
Dhanurveda within sixty-four days but this seems to be an
exceptional case, It is stated that they had already known
all the lores before hand but in order to fulfill the general
rules of the world they had gone to study under the sage
Sandipani and the sage himself was astonished on seeing them
learning Dhanurveda so quickly and considered their act to be
superhuman (195.12-28).
Foes
There was no fixed scale of monthly or sessional
fees prescribed for the students of the different grades or
classos in ancient India. It was the duty of the teachors to
teach all qualified students free whether they be rich or poor
and according to the linda theory the teacher's honorarium
129 Ibid., F.107.
