The University of Nalanda c9.120

c9.120

Harṣa, as we know, built a great *saṅghārāma* at Nālandā.¹ But, besides this, he constructed a *vihāra* with brass plates² and a high wall round all the buildings.³ However, this was not all. He helped and encouraged the University in other ways too. There were numerous students and professors who were to be maintained by the institution. And Harṣa, over and above the provision he must have made for the food and raiment for these, took upon himself the feeding of some forty priests every day as a special charge in order to show his gratitude, as the Chinese visitor says,¹ to the founder.