The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.68

c14.68

¹ Acc. to Manu III. 156, the teacher who teaches for a fixed fee belongs to the class of Brāhmaṇas excluded from participation in the soma-offering. Teaching for the sake of money was considered undignified : the scholar might at the end of his studies make a present to the teacher, the amount of which was determined by his capacity and could consist in land, in gold, in a cow, a horse, an umbrella, shoes, a chair, a seat, corns, clothes and even vegetables. Manu II. 245 sq.