The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c10.35

c10.35

² All that the king gives his sixteen-year-old son is a pair of sandals with simple soles, a sunshade made of leaves and 1,000 kahâpaṇas, an equipment which cannot be called extravagant, when we learn that the money is not for boarding expenses but has to be handed over untouched to the teacher who asks the new-comer about the honorarium (âcariyabhâga) after he has learnt his position and family (II. 277 sq. Cf. V. 457).