Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c31.8

c31.8

**His acquisition of knowledge of Sanskrit and its Grammar.** His internal acquisitions in India included a knowledge of Sanskrit and of Śabdavidyā (grammar and lexicography) (p. xxxi). He was thus able to translate on his return home no less than 56 works in 230 volumes. By the literature that he thus introduced into China in which were represented practically the whole texts of the Vinaya belonging to his own Nikāya (the Mūlasarvāstivādin school), he became the founder of a new school in China for the study of that particular branch of Buddhist literature.