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

136 EDUCATION IN ANCIENT INDIA [Ch.
Teachers' pay : Each teacher was given an
endowment of two puṭṭis of land. We do not know
anything about the net income of this land endowment.
The inscription, however, states that the carpenters
and drummers of the temple establishment were
assigned one puṭṭi of land for their wages. The
teacher's income was thus twice the wages of the
skilled labourer. The society was offering him just
what was necessary for a decent family life. The
salary of the principal was 100 nishkas; it is difficult
to assess its real value as the denotation of the term
nishka at this period is not definitely known.
SOMES OTHER TEMPLE COLLEGS
Temple Colleges fairly common in south India :
We have got somewhat detailed information about the
free Sanskrit colleges that were organised in the five
temple establishments mentioned above. There are,
however, clear indications that there were many more
similar temple colleges in the Deccan in the medieval
times (c. 900—1400 A. D.). Thus at Hebbal in
Dharwar district there existed a Maṭha in Bhuja-
bbeśvara temple in the 10th century A. D., which
had received an endowment of about two hundred
acres of land for giving free tuition and boarding
to students. About 200 students must have been
receiving free education here.¹ At Nagai in Nizam's
dominions, there existed a big temple Sanskrit college
in the 11th century where two hunndred students were
instructed in Vedic lore, two hundred in Smṛitis, one
hundred in epics, and fifty two in philosophy. The lib-
rary of the institute employed six librarians.² In 1075

1. E. I., IV, p. 355.
2. Hyd. Arch.. S., No. 8, p. 7.