Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c19.22

c19.22

A similar triple institution comprising a college, a hostel, and a hospital, is also recorded in an Inscription of A.D. 1068 [*Epi. Ind.*, xxi ; No. 185 of South Indian Epigraphy Report for 1915]. The College had an arrangement for free board and lodging for sixty students, of whom ten were admitted to Ṛigveda class, ten to Yajurveda, twenty to Grammar, ten to Pañcharātra philosophy class, three to Śivāgama class, while seven seats of the Hostel were reserved for Vānaprasthas and Sannyāsins.