Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.72

c30.72

**Śīlabhadra Vihāra.** Not far from the Guṇamati Monastery, on his way from Pāṭaliputra to Gayā, was another famous monastery built by the Śāstra-master Śīlabhadra, originally a scion of the Brahmanical royal family of Samataṭa, who, travelling through India in search of the wise, came to Nālandā and received instruction under Dharmapāla, of whose disciples he became the most eminent. A brahman of South India having come to Magadha to challenge the learning of his guru, Śīlabhadra utterly defeated him, and was rewarded by the king with the gift of a city which, however, he did not accept for himself as a monk but devoted to the endowment of a monastery (p. 110).