Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.32

c30.32

**Taxila.** From Bolor the pilgrim comes to Taksha-śilā, where the numerous old monasteries were now in ruins and the Brethren, who were all Mahāyānists, very few (ib.). At some distance from the city was "an old ruinous Monastery occupied by a few Brethren", where the great Sautrāntika Doctor of Buddhism, by name Kumāralabdha (recognized as one of the "four Suns illuminating the world" with Aśvaghosha, Deva, and Nāgārjuna), once composed his expository treatises (p. 245).