Education in Ancient India c7.s7.t4: Tiruvorriyur Temple College
Education in Ancient India c7.s7.t4
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Tiruvorriyur Temple College
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¹ S. I. E. R. for 1912, No. 201 of 1912
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A Grammar College in Memory of Panini
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temple before Pāṇini for fourteen continuous days in order to teach him the first fourteen aphorisms; the village community had therefore organised an efficient grammar college in the Śiva temple to commemorate the event. The college was a much bigger institution than the Ennāyiram college. In the latter place an endowment of 300 acres had enabled the organisers to arrange for the free food and education of 340 students. The Tiruvorriyur college had received an endowment of 400 acres; we may not be therefore far wrong in assuming that this grammar college must have had more than 450 students on its rolls. The number of teachers was probably about 15 to 20. This college went on performing its functions down to the 14th century; for a record, about a century later than the previous one, mentions how certain additional taxes were assigned for the upkeep of the grammar college.¹ Details about the management of this college are not available.
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¹ Ibid, No. 110 of 1912