Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s6.8

c32.s6.8

The story of the foundation of the Nadia School of Nyāya is connected with the great scholar Vāsudeva Sārvabhauma (*c.* A.D. 1450–1525) who was born in Nadia and, after being educated by his father in Grammar, Literature, and Jurisprudence, went to Mithilā at 25 to specialize in Logic. There he was admitted by the *Śalākā-parīkshā* and explained one by one 100 pages as they were probed by the needle and was awarded by his guru the high title of *Sārvabhauma* in recognition of his supreme merit. Finding that the teachers of Mithilā rigidly guarded the treasures of its knowledge by not permitting copy of the texts taught, Vāsudeva committed to memory the whole of *Tattva-chintāmaṇi* and the metrical part of *Kusumāñjali*.