Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c6.s2.23
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c6.s2.23
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The usual number of students under an individual teacher is invariably given as five hundred—which, again, is a conventional figure.¹ Among these, the majority was, of course, formed by Khattiyas and the Brāhmaṇas.² The minority was formed by sons of seṭṭhis or magnates and officers of kings.³ Once we read of a tailor going to Takkasilā, but that also in the company, or rather as a servant, of a merchants' son.⁴ Caṇḍālas were not admitted, as we saw from the instance of the two brothers Citta and Sambhūta.⁵