Prof. Heeraman Tiwari 

Context and Text: Commentary and Dialogue as Education in Ancient India

In early India, like elsewhere in the world, production of literary, philosophical and religious texts was woven into the pattern of texts, commentaries and meta-texts which supported by their context produced tradition of learning, yearning to know. It is in this sense that the sūtra-mode of advancing, enhancing of and imparting knowledge became a powerful medium of education and preservation of our past.

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