Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.49

c30.49

**Saṁkāśya.** At Saṁkāśya, or Kapitha, "there were four Buddhist monasteries with above 1,000 Brethren, all of the Sammatiya School" (p. 333). Near the capital was a large monastery containing "representations of Buddhist worthies in the highest style of ornament" (ib.), and peopled by "some hundreds of Brethren of the Sammatiya school" with myriads of lay dependents living outside it.