Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.31

c4.t2.31

Usually, though not always, the prince went to Takkasilā in company with his fellow-students—sons of the Purohita, the ministers, the commander-in-chief and other officers.⁴ He had to come out in the robe of an humble student leaving aside all those feelings of his higher position which he had upto then been, consciously or unconsciously, cherishing within himself. The interesting and very valuable material furnished on this point by the *Tila-Muṭṭhi-Jātaka*,⁵ to which a reference has already been made and to which we shall have frequently to return while dealing with this subject in detail, must here be noted, especially because it presents before us the prince-student: