Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c28.16

c28.16

**Invitations to Meals.** The cost of education was also to some extent taken over from the teachers and the taught by the occasional invitations to dinner extended to them by philanthropic householders. We read of a school of 500 students being invited to take meals by "a country family" at Takkasilā [i, 317], and of a similar entertainment given by an entire village [iii, 171]. These invitations would very often come by turns in such a way that they would work like a permanent provision of meals for the teachers and the taught.