The Colas c32.5.4

c32.5.4

The seventy senior pupils (*chātras*) had an allowance of ten *nāḷis* each, and were studying three advanced subjects—Vyākaraṇa 25, Prābhākara Mīmāṁsā 35 and the Vēdānta 10. It will be noticed that, in the courses of study, while all the four Vedas are represented, there is only one *sūtra* of Ṛgveda. The use of the *Rūpāvatāra* as an introduction to the elements of Sanskrit grammar in Rājēndra's reign,⁸ the popularity of the Mīmāmsā of Prabhākara almost to the exclusion of the Bhāṭṭa school, and, if the whole college was a Vaiṣṇava institution, as most probably it was, the mention of Vēdānta of the Viśiṣṭādvaita school as a subject of study long before the great Bhāṣya of Rāmānuja came into existence, should also be noted as of particular significance to the history of Sanskrit learning in South India. Among teachers, the largest daily allowance in grain of one *kalam* and a third went to the professor of Vēdānta; the *nambis* who taught the Mīmāmsā and Vyākaraṇa came next, getting one *kalam* each. All the others were on the same level receiving only three *kurunis* or a fourth of a *kalam* *per diem*.