The University of Nalanda c13.11

c13.11

Beginners and students six years old studied, what I-Tsing³ calls, *Siddha-composition* and finished it within six months. The book seems to deal with elementary Sanskrit grammar and it was perhaps meant to encourage young students to prosecute their studies further. This inference is supported by the name of the first section of the book "Be there success."⁴ The contents of it, according to I-Tsing, were as follows: "Forty nine letters of the alphabet (which) are combined with one another and arranged in eighteen sections; the total number of syllables is more than 10,000 or more than 300 *ślokas*."