The University of Nalanda c14.48

c14.48

Besides the six Gate-keepers, the professorial staff consisted of a hundred and eight professors. Like the senate or the academic council, of our modern Universities, there was a board of eminent professors, whose main function was to supervise and issue instructions to the various professors. This board, says Taranath, kept watch over the affairs of the University of Nālandā. This would imply that the new University had superseded the old, and that all the power had been vested in the board appointed for the new University. It is also suggestive of the fact that the presiding deity of both the Universities was the ruling Pala King, the first being Dharmapāla.