Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.93

c30.93

**Molapo (Mālwa).** Mo-la-po (Mālava) was a flourishing Buddhistic centre with "some hundreds of monasteries and more than 20,000 Brethren belonging to the Sammatiya school of the Hīnayāna" under the patronage of its great king Śīlāditya who had reigned for sixty years before the pilgrim's arrival and had instituted the custom of holding every year a great religious assembly of Brethren called from all sides, each of whom was "presented with the three robes and religious requisites, or with precious valuables". "This fine work had been continued for successive generations without interruption" (p. 242).