[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897) › c14.67 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.67 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.67 - **Language:** English ### [c14.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.67) This sum of one thousand \*kahāpaṇas\*¹ is always indicated as the amount payable to the teacher at the commencement of study. Of course, we cannot look upon such figures in our text as an indication of the amount of the honorarium, but we may perhaps draw the conclusion that the fees of the Brâhmaṇa teacher were not trifling. Even the poor Brâhmaṇa scholar who received a free education tried later to pay the teacher by earning the money jointly by begging (dhammena bhikkhaṃ caritvā ācariyadhanaṃ āharissāmi. IV. 224); sometimes rich residents of the city, who took care to feed poor Brâhmaṇa youths, bore also the expenses of their teaching (Bārāṇasivāsino duggatānaṃ paribbhayaṃ datvā sippaṃ sikkhāpenti I. 239). - [Previous: c14.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.66) - [Next: c14.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.68) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14) ## Linked texts (1) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.478) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.67) · Pramāṇa