History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c24.s1.340.4

v2.c24.s1.340.4

Numerous grants and inscriptions testify to the provision made by kings and well-to-do donors for all branches of study. In E. C. vol. III. T N. 27 there is a grant made by the minister Perumal under the Hoysala king Vīranarasiṁhadeva in 1290 A. D. which provided that each teacher of the Ṛgveda and the other Vedas was to receive a salary of six gadyāṇakas of gold a year and the teacher who taught the boys to read Nāgara, Kannaḍa, Tiguḷa ( Tamil ) and Ārya ( Marathi ) was to receive the same salary. The Gadag inscription of the time of Vikramāditya VI. (1098 A. D.) refers to the founding of a school for teaching Prabhākara's system of Mīmāṁsā at Lakkiguṇḍi ( E. I. vol. 15 p. 348 ). Vide E. I. vol. I. p. 338 ( for endowment for teaching an astronomical work of Bhāskara ).