Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.8

c30.8

**His Account of Brahmanical Education.** The facts and conditions of Indian education and culture had considerably changed since Fa-Hien's time. Hiuen Tsang testifies to the ascendancy of Brahmanism as a result of the impetus given to it by the official support of the Gupta emperors. He also noticed the growth and extension of the Mahāyāna schools of Buddhism, though the Hīnayāna school still claimed superiority as regards the number of its followers. Thus at every centre of Buddhism which the traveller chose to visit, he observed not merely the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna monks living either in the same or independent monasteries, but also numerous Deva-temples and Brahmanical sects and devotees "living pell-mell".