Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c19.23

c19.23

Vedic teachers were paid sixty *kalams* of paddy and four *kāsus* of gold in the year (about a sixth of the salary paid at the Ennāyiram college, as stated above). The teacher of Grammar was paid double that salary, 120 *kalams* of paddy and 10 *kāsus* of gold (equal in value to 35 *kalams* of paddy). But even this salary was only half of that paid at the other college to the teacher of Grammar. A menial in Temple service got a salary of sixty *kalams* of paddy with two *kāsus* of gold in the year. Thus teachers' salaries were not the same in all institutions.