Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s1.4

c32.s1.4

**Account of Hiuen Tsang: Its Name.** Hiuen Tsang mentions two traditions regarding the origin of the name of Nālandā given to the monastery It was called after a dragon living in a tank in a Mango Park existing to the south of the monastery. This tradition is rejected by Hiuen Tsang but accepted by I-tsing (Watters, ii, 166). Hiuen Tsang prefers the Jātaka story referring the name to the epithet "Insatiable in giving" (*na-alam-dā*), which was won by the Buddha for his liberality in a former birth as king of this country.