The University of Nalanda c10.158

c10.158

⁴ Ibid. Havell seems to be wrong in attributing the statement to Hiuen Tsiang, for nowhere in Hiuen Tsiang's or his biographer's records can we trace the remark. It is I-Tsing, however, who gives a detailed description of a clepsydra, and its working at Nālandā. See o.c., pp. 144-146. Cf. also the following words from Nan-hae-k'i-kwei-nin-fā-ch'uen, Beal, J.R.A.S., XIII (N. S.), p. 571. "This is the only temple in which, by Imperial order, a water clock is kept to determine the right time."