Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c31.2

c31.2

**I-tsing visited India soon after Hiuen Tsang.** Seventh-century India has been described by another Chinese traveller who set foot on Indian soil in A.D. 672 within a few years after Hiuen Tsang had left it (A.D. 645). It was this fact which probably determined the lines and scope of I-tsing’s account of India so as not to render it superfluous after Hiuen Tsang’s copious account immediately preceding it. Accordingly, we miss in it the wealth of details, the range and variety of information, which make of Hiuen Tsang’s record a sort of a Gazetteer for India of those spacious times. And yet, in covering the ground not trod in Hiuen Tsang’s account, the account of I-tsing necessarily forms a valuable addition and supplement to Hiuen Tsang’s.