Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c19.33

c19.33

**A College at Dhārā.** King Bhoja of Malwa (A.D. 1018–60), a patron of learning, founded at his capital, Dhārā, a college appropriately located in a Temple of ‘*Vāgdevī*’, ‘Goddess of Learning’, whose image in stone is a masterpiece of Brahmanical sculpture [Plate XVI]. The inscription on its pedestal mentions the king called ‘Bhoja-Narendra-Chandra’, the sculptor ‘Manthala, son of Sūtradhara (craftsman), Sahira’, ‘the writer, Śivadeva’, and the date, ‘Saṁvat 1091’ = A.D. 1034. The Image shows to its right the figures of a bearded Ṛishi, his disciple, the donor, and, to the left, the Mother of Vāgdevī, Durgā on lion [*Rūpam*, January, 1924].