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What they study · Stories

A story a day, from the Itihāsas and the Purāṇas

The Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata, the Bhāgavata and the other Purāṇas are not a subject on Fridays. A story is told every day of the school year, by an acharya who grew up on them, and the children carry it into the rest of the day.

The stories a child meets

DhruvaPrahlādaNachiketaŚravaṇa KumāraHanumān's leapSītā in the forestEkalavyaAbhimanyuSāvitrīHariścandraGajendraMarkaṇḍeyaBhagīrathaKarṇaŚabarīand hundreds more

How a story is taught

  • Told, not read out. The acharya tells it the way it was told to them, and stops where the children want to stop.
  • Talked over. "What would you have done?" comes before "what is the moral?". Darśana begins here.
  • Carried into the day. Drawn in Kalā, sung in Sangīta, acted at the festival days, retold by the child at home that evening.
  • Read in the original, in time. By Level 4 the children read the ślokas themselves, in Saṃskṛtam, with the acharya.
Young children of an Anaadi Bala Gurukulam seated in a circle outdoors with their acharya
Story time in a circle at an Anaadi Bala Gurukulam; at iGurukulam the circle is on the screen, and the story is the same.

Why: a child meets the person before the moral. The values and the ways of reasoning of this civilisation arrive the way they always did, as stories remembered for life.

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