The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.63

c14.63

The scholars (antevasika) were not always placed in the same category, but were divided, according to the Tilamutthi Jâtaka, into two classes, namely, into the Dhammantevâsika, that is, such as during the day-time rendered service to the teacher (as remuneration for the instruction received) and prosecuted their studies at night, and the âcariyabhâgadâyaka, i.e., those who paid an honorarium to the teacher; these live—as it is said in II. 278—like eldest sons in the house of the teacher. To the honorarium brought by the pupil, great importance is attached by the teacher. The meeting between the newly arrived scholar, a prince from Benares, and the teacher in Takkasilâ, narrated in the Tilamuṭṭhi Jâtaka, takes place in the following way: The young prince is informed where his teacher lives and meets him as he walks to and fro in