ABSTRACT
This chapter opens with a discussion on the early life of a girl child, the response to reception in the family on her birth, and her educational aspects where through literature and inscriptions it differentiates the approaches of royal and common classes of society. Both inscriptional and contemporary literary sources simultaneously narrate the stories of minor and major girl marriages, but contrary to the literary sources, inscriptional sources indicate that the age of marriage did not affect the education of a girl child.
