Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c31.33

c31.33

**Breadth of Culture in these Monasteries.** Both these classes of secular students, the *Mānavas* and the *Brahmachārīs*, were also permitted to be in residence in the monasteries instead of being compelled to attend them as day-scholars. But they had, of course, to bring their own boarding expenses, for they could not under rules be fed from the property of the Saṁgha unless they had done some laborious work for the Saṁgha, who might then pay for it in the shape of feeding them according to their merit (p. 106). It was, of course, open for the monasteries to receive special grants of food for these classes of students (ib.).