Sanskrit and Vedic learning

Education in India
General details
Primary languagesSanskrit
System typeGurukula
EstablishedVedic period

Sanskrit learning, also called Brahminic learning, Sanskrit education, and Sanskrit culture, is the traditional study and transmission of Indian religious and secular knowledge preserved in Sanskrit texts. Vedic learning is specifically the tradition of oral transmission and learning by heart of the Vedic mantras as preserved in the Vedas and the post-Vedic smriti and shastra, and auxiliary traditions (vedanga) which concern the proper understanding and interpretation of Sanskrit, and the proper execution of the Vedic rituals.