title: Educational practices in urban spaces of Ancient India
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metadata.value: Desnitskaya, Evgeniya A.
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metadata.value: 2021-11-02T13:37:10Z
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metadata.value: 2021-11-02T13:37:10Z
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metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.value: Desnitskaya E. A. Educational practices in urban spaces of Ancient India. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 3, pp. 516–531.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.312
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33396
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metadata.value: The urbanization of Ancient India dates back to the middle of the first millennium BCE. In the
  early days, urban culture was influenced by unorthodox religious movements from the East
  of India, and by social practices adopted from western Hellenistic states. Urban culture contributed
  to the genesis and spread of scripts and literacy in India. It was in urban spaces and at
  royal courts that Sanskrit evolved from the oral language of Brahmanic ritualism to the written
  language of the cosmopolis, the language of literature and philosophy. By the beginning of CE,
  urban spaces in India became the place of modernization of Brahmanism. Arts and theoretical
  disciplines blossomed in towns and at royal courts. Urban educational practices were focused
  on practical disciplines and on skills connected with aesthetic pleasure. The basis of education
  was reading and writing. Urban culture in the 1st millennium CE was multireligious. Buddhist
  universities at the monasteries were leading educational centers supported by kings, including
  the non-Buddhist ones. Buddhist philosophy was taught there along with traditional Brahmanic
  and lay disciplines (grammar, normative poetics, etc.). Therefore, the urban space in ancient India
  was the place of mutual interaction between Brahmanical, Buddhist, and secular scholarship
  as well as educational traditions. It was in towns, at Buddhist monasteries and royal courts that
  written culture and the corresponding educational practices were established.
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metadata.value: This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant 18-78-10001.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ancient India
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sanskrit
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: education in India
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metadata.value: Buddhism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Brahmanism
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metadata.value: urban spaces
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metadata.value: Educational practices in urban spaces of Ancient India
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metadata.value: Article
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