The University of Nalanda c7.27

c7.27

Thus, even as early as the Upaniṣadic times, India had evolved a system of education which, in spite of its extreme simplicity, would stand comparison, so far as the essentials are concerned, with similar organisations of the Occident known as ‘City schools’, ‘*Studium generale*’, ‘University’ etc. In course of time this system came to be introduced or was prevalent in the *āśramas*, *mathas*, and *vihāras*. Nālandā was one of such *vihāras*. Let us see how far it embodied the aims and ideals of educational institutions of the East and the West.