Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c29.17

c29.17

Śrāvastī in earlier days seems to have been a university town. Round the Jetavana Vihāra as the centre there were originally no less than ninety-eight monasteries. Of these, Fa-Hien found only a few existing. One was the Vihāra originally built by mother Viśākhā (pp. 55–63).