Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.69

c30.69

**Magadha.** In the country of Magadha he found "above fifty monasteries and more than 10,000 ecclesiastics" of the Mahāyāna school (p. 86) He refers to the old monastery of Kukkuṭārāma, now in ruins, where the Buddhists once lived along with the Tīrthikas, calling meetings by gong-beating. Once at a public discussion appointed by the king, the Buddhists were defeated by the Tīrthikas and had borne their humiliation for twelve years until the great Buddhist scholar, Deva, a disciple of Nāgārjuna in South India, obtained his master's permission to go to Pāṭaliputra city and meet the Tīrthikas in discussion who were utterly defeated in a twelve days' discourse by him (p. 100).