Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s1.25

c32.s1.25

**Concentration on Study.** The students "being so abundantly supplied", and having not had to worry about their material needs of life, "the four requisites," they could give themselves wholeheartedly to their studies and self-culture. "This is the source of the perfection of their studies to which they have arrived" (*Life*, p. 113). We have already noticed I-tsing's appreciation of this remarkable and necessary provision in Ancient Indian education.