The University of Nalanda c13.111

c13.111

The next meal, it appears, was at 12 o'clock, forenoon.⁷ Even this meal, as I-Tsing says, was sometimes delayed till the afternoon.⁸ Rice, butter, milk,⁹ fruits, and sweet melons,¹⁰ were usually taken by students for their food. All these provisions were contributed by two hundred householders from about hundred villages.¹ Whether there was any equivalent of our afternoon tea, or even the evening supper, we are not in a position to say, though we think that there must be some evening meal at about 7 o'clock.