Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.s6.63

c12.s6.63

Thus the *Parishad* was an academic institution of a composite or federal type on which were represented the different faculties or departments of the learning of the times, together with the different classes of experience and interests in society. Thus constituted and composed, it was competent to discharge its high and responsible functions sometimes as a judicial assembly and sometimes like an ecclesiastical synod. It was also an association of teachers and students and other learned men, and would thus form the nucleus of something corresponding to a University.