The University of Nalanda c13.19

c13.19

With *Vritti-sūtra*, the study of grammar was over.¹ All these years, efforts to train the memory of the student were made, and he was made to learn everything by heart. But now when he finished the *Vritti sūtra* "he began to learn composition in verse and prose." From the study of composition, he passed on to the study of *Hetuvidyā* (Logic) and *Abhidharma-kośa* (Metaphysics). The student was taught to draw valid and invalid inferences by the study of *Nyāya-dvāra-tarka-śāstra*, while *Jātakamālā* increased his power of comprehension.