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.