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

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personal attention and instructions. Big classes like
those existing in modern colleges were unknown.
Maintenance Allowance to Students : The college
supplied free boarding to students, and we have
interesting information about the rations allowed per
head. Each Vedic student received about one seer
of rice per day and this quantity was sufficient for
the daily meals. He also received annually an
allowances of about one eighth tola of gold, which was
probably intended to cover the clothing expenses.
The allowance for the students of grammar and
philosophy was about 66 per cent higher; the reason
for this preferential treatment is not clear.
The Salaries of Teachers : The normal allowance
for the teachers of the college was about 16 seers of
rice every day. The cost of an ordinary meal was
about half a seer of rice ; an ordinary Sanskrit teacher
was thus getting as his salary about three times the
amount necessary for the food expenses of a family
of five. He was thus receiving a salary just sufficient
for his normal family responsibilities. He was neither
rolling in riches nor suffering from abject poverty.
Philosophy (Vedānta) was apparently regarded as a
difficult subject, for the salary of the teacher of the
subject was 25 percent higher.
TIRUMUKKUDAL TEMPLE COLLEGE.¹
General Organisation : During the 11th century,
Venkatesh Perumal Temple at Tirumukkudal in
Chingleput district was a very interesting institution,
for it was running a college, a hostel and a hospital.
The college was a smaller institution than the one

1. E. I., XXI, No. 220.