Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s1.82

c32.s1.82

Scholars from different parts of India at Nālandā. We have already referred to the tradition connecting the great scholars, Nāgārjuna and Āryadeva, with Nālandā. Rāhulabhadra was another scholar who "held office as a teacher in Śrī Nālandā when King Chandra erected fourteen fragrant Halls and fourteen incomparable religious Schools" [*Vidyābhūshana, Medieval Indian Logic*, p. 146]. It may also be assumed that the Great Masters, Asaṅga and Vasubandhu, were also associated with Nālandā, as they lived in the latter part of the fifth century A.D. when Nālandā was already growing up as a centre of education [*JRAS.*, 1905, p. 35]. Tārānāth says that "Asaṅga lived in the period of his later life for twelve years at Nālandā" [p. 118]. The early part of his life was spent at Peshawar and Ayodhyā [Takakusu, *JRAS.*, ib., pp. 35–44]. Diṅnāga was the next famous scholar of Nālandā, who hailed from the South, as a native of Kāñchī. According to a legend, he was living in a cave when he was sent for by the Pandits of Nālandā to defeat in argument the invincible Brahman, Sudurjaya.