Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.91

c30.91

**Mahārāshṭra.** The pilgrim next came to the Mahārāshṭra country then under Pulakesin II where there were above 100 monasteries and 5,000 Brethren of both Vehicles. Near the capital were an old monastery and another on a mountain range with its lofty halls and deep chambers quarried in the cliff with a temple, of which the walls had depicted on them the incidents of the Buddha's career as Bodhisattva. The monastery was built by Āchāra of West India and is supposed by some to be no other than the famous Ajaṇṭā Caves (p. 240).