1. Similarities (3): Education System

[Full title: Similarities between the Two Societies of the Kādambarī and the Harṣacarita (3): Education System]

In both the kāvyas, it found that the boys were getting the formal education. Bāṇabhaṭṭa has mentioned in the Harṣacarita that many residential schools were prevalent during his time.^[1] In the Kādambarī, prince Candrāpīḍa would receive all types of knowledge^[2] with other common pupils in residential school with many expert teachers.^[3] The curriculum^[4] of formal education of the princes given in detailed in Kādambarī, through which it implies that the prince did not only study the different branches of knowledge such as grammar, philosophy, Dharmaśāstra etc., but also gained the highest skill in gymnastics and in all kinds of weapons such as bow, shield, battle-axe etc. Training regarding horse riding, elephant riding, musical instruments such as flute and drum etc, all the mechanical arts, the Vedas and the science of music etc. was given. All types of subjects were recommended for the princes in that period. Under king Puṣpabhūti’s dynasty, the princes were taught all these arts.^[5] But there is no description of giving formal education to the girls in both the gadyakāvyas.