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Dayanada and
Arya
Samaj 21
indissoluble, he admitted the remarriage of widows
and went so far as to envisage a temporary union
for women as well as men for the purpose of having
children, if none had resulted from marriage.
Lastly the Arya Samaj, whose eighth principle
was " to diffuse knowledge and dissipate ignorance"
had played a great part in the education of India—
especially in the Punjab and the United Province—
and it has founded a host of schools for girls and
boys. Their laborious hives are grouped round two
model establishments,' The Dayanand Anglo—Vedic
College of Lahore and the Gurukula of Kangri,
national bulwarks of Hindu education, which seek
to resuscitate the energies of the race and to use at
the same time the intellectual and technical
conquests of the West.
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This was our information at the date of the
publication of Lajpat Rai's book. From that date the
educational movement has probably continued to expand.
The Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College of Lahore,
opened in 1886. Instruction in Sanskrit, Hindi, Persian,
English, Oriental and European Philosophy, Political,
Economy, Science, Arts and Crafts. The Gurukala is a
school founded in 1902, where the children take the vow
of chastity and obedience for sixteen years. Its object is to
reform Aryan character by Hindu philosophic and literary