The Rashtrakutas and their Times c23.s1.33

c23.s1.33

The guild at Dambal, which owned 18 cities, is described in a record from the place as maintaining a college. (25) It is, therefore, not unlikely that some of the big guilds of our period may have been either maintaining or supporting educational institutions. The state also used to sanction grants specially and directly for education, in addition to its indirect help given by the creation of the *agrahāras*. The Bahur plates of Nṛpatuṅgavarman record a grant of three villages for the maintenance of a college, made by the king at the request of his minister. (26)