Question

What what did harshvardhan do as a patron of arts and religion?

Answer 1

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Hiuen Tsang found that the education of the people was organized and began early.  After the primer had been learnt, the boy or girl was supposed to begin the study of the five Shastras at the age of seven.

“Shastras” are supposed to mean purely religious books, but in those days they meant knowledge of all kinds.  Thus the five Shastras were (1) Grammar; (2) Science of arts and crafts; (3) Medicine; (4) Logic; (5) Philosophy.

The study of these subjects went on in the universities and was usually completed at the age of thirty.  I suppose not very many people could goon up to that age.  But it appears that primary education was comparatively widespread, as all the monks and priests were the teachers, and there was no lack of them.

Hiuen Tsang was much stuck by the love of learning of the Indian people, and right through his book he refers to this.