Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s1.18

c32.s1.18

**Further Benefactions.** But besides gifts of buildings the University received gifts of lands. In Hiuen Tsang's time, "the king of the country remitted the revenues of about 100 villages for the endowment of the convent" (*Life*, p. 112). In I-tsing's time, "the lands in its possession bestowed upon the monastery by kings of many generations contained more than 200 villages" (p. 65). From these villages came to the monastery a daily supply of a large quantity of rice, weighing several hundred piculs (1 picul = 133⅓ lb.), and also of butter and milk, weighing several hundred catties (1 catty = 160 lb.) (*Life*, ib.). These provisions were contributed day by day by 200 householders in these villages (ib.).