Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c28.17

c28.17

**State Scholarships.** There was again another class of students who paid the teacher's fees from the scholarships awarded to them by the States to which they belonged. Generally such students would be sent as companions of the princes of their respective countries who were deputed to Takkasilā for education. We read of the sons of the royal chaplains of the courts of Benares [v, 263], and Rājagaha [iii, 238, and v, 247], accompanying their respective princes to Takkasilā for their education. Cases, however, are not wanting of students being sent on their own account for higher studies to Takkasilā at State expense. Thus we read of a Brahman boy of Benares being sent by the king at his expense to Takkasilā for the purpose of specializing in the science of archery [v, 127].