Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.79

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c30.79

**Puṇyavardhana.** In Puṇyavardhana there were twenty monasteries and above 3,000 Brethren following both the Vehicles. In the neighbourhood was a magnificent monastery with "spacious halls and tall storeyed chambers, and 700 Brethren" of Mahāyāna school, among whom were many distinguished monks from "East India" (p. 184).

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