Identifier: aryasamajaccount00lajpuoft Title: The Arya samaj; an account of its origin, doctrines, and activities, with a biographical sketch of the founder Year: 1915 (1910s) Authors: Lajpat Rai, Lala, 1865-1928 Subjects: Dayananda Sarasvati, Swami, 1824-1883 Arya-Samaj Publisher: London Longmans, Green Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: our,from 5 to 5.30, is allowed for bathing, either in theGanges or the bath-house as each boy prefers, andcompleting the toilet. Next follows the morningworship. This consists of Sandhya, a prayer, silentlyand individually offered, and the agnihotra, a fireoblation made by the boys in groups. Sandhya isthe mental repetition, with closed eyes, of a numberof Sanskrit verses, and occupies about twelveminutes. . . . All the boys next assemble to listen to and takepart in a conversation with the Governor on somemoral or ethical subject. This occupies half or three-quarters of an hour. A little light food, usually milk or nuts, is thendistributed. Two hours of study follow. At 8.45 themorning meal is taken. The school boys assemblein two dining-halls, the college boys and theGovernor mess by themselves. The food is plainbut substantial and well prepared, consisting ofwheat chapaties, dal, a vegetable, and curd. About 1 Paucity of funds has made it necessary to reimpose a smallfee for board.

Text Appearing After Image: EDUCATIONAL PROPAGANDA 201 half an hours rest follows the meal, frequentlyspent in the large garden adjoining the schoolbuildings. From 9.45 to4.15 are the school hours of the day—that is during the colder half of the year. Thesummer programme is not quite the same. An inter-mission of half an hour occurs soon after mid-day,during which the pupils are given milk or otherlight refreshment. From 4.15 to 4.45 the boys areleft to themselves. From 4.45 to 5.30 is the playhour, when football, cricket, base-ball, and Indiangames are played. Regular participation in thesegames is required of all students. Between 5.30 and 6 another bath is taken, usuallyin the river. The Ganges at this point is a swiitflowing stream with remarkably pure and cold water.Only a portion of the river flows near the Gurukula,and of that the depth is not sufficient to occasiondanger to bathers. From 6 to 6.30 Sandhya and agnihotra are againperformed as in the morning. Then follows theevening meal, which is substan

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