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

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committee of the village council, within whose jurisdiction
they fell. It was this sub-committee which administered
the estates given as endowments and appointed the tea-
chers of the institution. What subjects were to be taught
and how many seats were to be reserved for each of them
may have been settled by the temple committee in consul-
tation with the views of the head of the institution. The
latter was in charge of the internal administration. He
supervised over the boarding houses, allotted seats to
students, appointed servants for the messes and arranged
for the supply of provisions. In some places even hospital
arrangement was made for the need of students falling
ill. The distribution of the teaching work, the supervision
of the library and the maintenance of discipline also
fell within the jurisdiction of the head of the Institution.
School and College Building: We have seen
already in Chap. II (pp. 32-3) how only a few educational
institutions were located in sylvan solitudes. There is
however no information as to what arrangements were
made in these institutions for the housing of classes and
the lodging of students. In fair weather the classes must
have been held under the shades of trees; in the rainy
season, some kind of humble tenements must have been
found indispensable both for teaching and residence. As far
as organised educational institutions like the Buddhist
Universities or Hindu temple colleges are concerned, we
have definite evidence to show that they used to provide
good, spacious and often imposing buildings for their
class rooms and hostels. At Nālandā there were eight big
lecture halls and as many as three hundred small class
rooms. The college buildings were stately and several
storeys in height. The university of Vikramasīlā also was
provided with several lecture halls by the Pāla emperors.
Similar arrangements must have existed at other famous