Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s1.43

c32.s1.43

**Time-table.** The daily duties of the monks at Nālandā were regulated strictly according to time, which was measured by means of the clepsydra. The day was one of eight hours, each of which was indicated by four immersions of the smaller bowl in the larger vessel of water. Each such immersion was indicated by one stroke of a drum, while the completion of one hour as defined above was announced by four strokes of a drum, two blasts of a conch-shell, and an additional beat of the drum.