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[[Upanayana (उपनयनम्)|Upanayana]] or the ceremony of initiation was though recognised as the most important education rite, education instead began little earlier with other less known rite called Vidyāraṁbha Saṁskāra. Upanayana marked the beginning of the first significant phase of life or the entry into the [[Brahmacharyashrama (ब्रह्मचर्याश्रमः)|Brahmacharyashrama]], the Vidyāraṁbha marked the entry into the system of education, to make him familiar with the basic of learning or education or even the language.<ref name=":5" />

[[Upanayana (उपनयनम्)|Upanayana]] or the ceremony of initiation was though recognised as the most important education rite, education instead began little earlier with other less known rite called Vidyāraṁbha Saṁskāra. Upanayana marked the beginning of the first significant phase of life or the entry into the [[Brahmacharyashrama (ब्रह्मचर्याश्रमः)|Brahmacharyashrama]], the Vidyāraṁbha marked the entry into the system of education, to make him familiar with the basic of learning or education or even the language.<ref name=":5" />

Ultimate goal of education is moksha.   

Ultimate goal of education was regarded as moksha. 

 

 

The Brahmachari starts his career by taking on the Savitri Vrata (सावित्रीव्रतम्) as a part of the [[Upanayana (उपनयनम्)|Upanayana]] ceremony. [[Brahmacharya (ब्रह्मचर्यम्)|Brahmacharya]] literally means "attendance on Brahma or Veda” and involves the observances which the student has to keep through certain periods of time before the different Vedic texts which he has to learn can be taught him. Thus the study of the Veda is opened by the Savitri vrata. Based on the varna of the student, the Savitri taught to him varies with different Chandas. This Vrata might last for a time period ranging from three days to one year. According to Paraskara [ii, 4, 3, 6], the Savitri Vrata may last for one year, six months, twenty-four days, twelve days, six days, or three days. Many observe a period of three days for this first of the Brahmacharin's vratas. During this time, the student had to live on special food, which was not to be either pungent or saline, or milk, and to beg that food from different women both from the household as well as the neighborhood. Manu [ii, 50] mentions that the pupil must beg food first from his mother, then from his sister, then from his own maternal aunt and then from a female who will not disgrace him by a refusal.<ref>Mookerji. Radha Kumud, (1947) Ancient Indian Education (Brahminical and Buddhist) London: MacMillan And Co., Ltd. (Page 182-)</ref> 

 

 

 

 

Next follows the Anuvdchana, or the way of studying the Veda which can be done only after the Sukriya Vrata has been enjoined on the student. Before that nothing but the Savitri can be taught to him ”  

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