Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c6.s2.7

c6.s2.7

After completing this general education, the boys were sent out to some well-known institution for higher education. Of all the places which imparted higher education, Takkasilā, in the extreme north-west, was by far the most important and widely renowned. Our stories abound in references to this famous University town.⁴ It was, as we have already noted, the chief intellectual centre of the age, attracting students and scholars from different and distant parts of the country.⁵ The fame of Takkasilā as a great centre of learning was evidently due to its world-renowned teachers (disāpāmokhā ācariyā). Let us see how this great University seat imparted education to the youths of the country.