Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.83

c30.83

**Karṇasuvarṇa.** In Karṇasuvarṇa (according to Fergusson to be identified with the districts of Burdwan, Birbhum, and Murshidabad) were more than ten monasteries and above 2,000 Brethren, all of the Sammatiya school (p. 191). There were also three other monasteries of the sect of Devadatta. Near the capital was the Raktāmrita Monastery (modern *Rāṅgāmāṭi*), "a magnificent and famous establishment, the resort of illustrious Brethren" which "had been erected by a king of the country before the country was converted to Buddhism to honour a Buddhist Śramaṇa from South India who had defeated in public discussion a boasting disputant of another system also from South India" (p. 191).