The University of Nalanda c14.64

c14.64

From the works composed by its pandits, Dānaśīla and others, Tāntrism of the most degraded type seems to have flourished there.³ The works deal with Piśāca, owls, nāgas (serpents), yakṣas, etc. and their *sādhanas*, revealing to what low depths and moral enervation the pandits had given themselves up, believing all the time, that they were doing the most praiseworthy act, *viz.*, composing works on the worship of objects whom they regarded as deities.