The University of Nalanda c13.48

c13.48

If we rely solely upon I-Tsing for our knowledge then the minimum age at which a student obtained admission at Nālandā or Valabhi would be twenty, because, at the age of fifteen a boy just began his study of Vṛttisūtra and he finished it at the age of twenty.³ Having mastered this, he learnt such subjects as Hetuvidyā (Logic) and Abhidharmakoṣa (Metaphysics). After studying all this, to quote the same author, "(The students) thus instructed by their teachers and instructing others, they pass two or three years, generally in the Nālandā monastery in Central India or in the country of Valabhi in Western India."¹