प्राचीन भारत में शिक्षा (डॉ. ए.एस. अल्तेकर - गुरुकुल एवं बौद्ध विहार शिक्षण इतिहास)

132 EDUCATION IN ANCIENT INDIA [Ch.
a feast was given in the village, the host was expected
to invite as many teachers and students as possible.
A later inscription from the same place informs us that
when the college hall built by the minister of Kṛishṇa
III in 945 A. D. crumbled down in the next century,
it was rebuilt by a local magnate.
ENNĀYIRAM TEMPLE COLLEGE.¹
The Strength of the College; Subjects Taught :
At the beginning of the 11th century A. D. there
existed a famous and well organised college at
Ennāyiram in South Arcott district, which was an
educational institution of the modern type, with a
staff of sixteen teachers, engaged in teaching a pre-
determined curriculum. The local village community
had endowed the college with 300 acres of landed
property, thus enabling its authorities to offer free
tuition, boarding and lodging to 340 students. The
admission of students was governed by the principle
of the reservation of a fixed number of seats for
different subjects. Thus 75 seats were reserved for
the Ṛigveda and Black Yajurveda each, 40 seats for
the Sāmaveda, 20 for the White Yajurveda, 10 for
the Atharvaveda, Baudhāyana Dharmasūtra and
Vedānta each, 25 for grammar, 35 for Mīmānsā and
40 for Rūpāvatāra (?). The institution was thus
predominently a Vedic college.
Number of Teachers : For the Ṛigveda and Black
Yajurveda, there were three teachers each, for the
Mīmānsā two, and for the rest of the subjects one
each. There were 16 teachers for 340 students, and
so the average number of students per teacher was
about 22. Students therefore must have received

1. S. I. E. R. for 1918, p. 145, Inscription No. 333 for 1917