Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.87

c30.87

**Andhra and Vengi.** The Andhra country (Telingāna, according to Cunningham, and Vengi, according to Fergusson) had "twenty odd monasteries with more than 3,000 Brethren. Near the capital was a large monastery with a succession of high walls and storeyed terraces wrought with perfect art, and containing an exquisite image of the Buddha". In the neighbourhood was an isolated hill on the ridge of which was a stone tope where was composed his treatise on Logic by Chen-na identified with the famous Buddhist scholar Diṅnāga, originally an orthodox Brahman of Kāñchi who later joined the Vatsīputra sect of the Hīnayāna school, from which he was expelled by his teacher whom he had displeased and transferred himself to the school of Vasubandhu. He sojourned for some time in Nālandā where he was victorious in his discussions with several exponents of various schools (pp. 209, 212).