Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c19.7

c19.7

**Salotgi.** Nārāyaṇa, a minister of the Rāshtrakūṭa emperor Kṛishṇa III, founded a temple of the Trayī-Purusha, the hall of which accommodated a Sanskrit College. In course of time, the College had to build as many as twenty-seven Hostels for residence of its students who hailed from different provinces (*nānājanapadodbhavāḥ*). The expense of lights for the hostels was met from a special endowment of twelve Nivartanas (probably = 60 acres of land), while another endowment of 500 Nivartanas paid for the expenses of boarding for at least 200 students. The Principal of the College was maintained by the income of another endowment of fifty Nivartanas. The village where the College was situated, Salotgi, in Bijapur District, also supported the College by an arrangement that each villager should contribute to its funds 5 coins at each marriage, 2½ coins at each Upanayana, and 1¼ coin at each Chūḍākaraṇa ceremony to be performed by him, while at every social feast he was to invite its students and teachers [*Epi. Indica*, iv, 60].