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

V] EDUCATIONAL CENTRES AND INSTITUTIONS 137
A.D., a temple at Bijapur received a big endowment
of about 1200 acres of land for providing food and
raiments to ascetics and to the pupils of Yogeśvara
Paṇḍita, who was conducting a free Mīmānsā school
there.¹ To judge from the endowment, the college of
this Paṇḍita must have been much bigger than that at
Ennāyiram. At Managoli in Bijapur district, during the
latter half of the 12th century, a local temple used to
maintain a grammar school where Kaumāra grammar
was taught by a teacher, who was given an endowment
of 20 acres of land². At about the same time the
Dakshiṇeśvara temple authorities at Belgamve in
Karnatak used to offer free boarding to students
studying in the temple school.³ In 1158 A. D. there
flourished at Talgund in Shimoga district a small
Sanskrit college in the local Prāṇeśvara temple, where
free food and education was offered to 48 students,
studying the Ṛigveda, the Yajurveda, the Sāmaveda,
Prābhākara-Mīmānsā, philosophy (Vedānta), linguistics
(Bhāshā-śāstra) and Canarese. The institution had
employed two cooks to manage the kitchen of the
boarding house. At Punnavayil in Tanjore District
there existed another grammar college, attached to
a local temple and endowed with 400 acres of land.
As the endowment for the maintenance of this
institution was larger than that enjoyed by the
Ennāyiram college, it is quite likely that it may have
afforded free education and food to about 500
students.⁴ South Indian Inscriptions Nos. 604, 667,
571, and 695 of 1916 record various grants for the
salaries of teachers and boarding of students studying

1. I. A., X, pp. 129-31.
2. E. I., V, p. 22.
3. E. C., L. No. 45.
4. S. I. E. R. for 1918, pp. 109-110.