4 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (January, 1909. 
8,000 persons, as was observed by Nag-tcho on the next day after 
his arrival at the monastery. There were apparently easy means 
for ascending the hill, perhaps flights of steps led up to it, for 
when a stranver arrived in the night, he felt no difficulty in 
climbing the hill, though pertaps he could get no admittance, the 
gates being closed for the night; but there were Dhirmasalas or 
rest-houses outside the gates for the accommodation of such travel- 
lers.! There can be no doubt that the Vikramasila vihaéra was 
trines of the Mahdydna system of Buddhism as well as other 
systems of philosophy. e primitive Buddhist religion, which 
represented the highest culture of the moral faculties and which 
various parts of India and also from countries beyond the limits 
of India resorted to this seat of learning for receiving instruction. 
) g. 
The first abbot (adhindyka) of the VikramasilA monastery 
at the time of Dharma-pala was Sribuddha Jndnapada, Dipan- 
1 Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow, p. 58; Journal of the Indian 
Buddhist Text Society, 1893. 
2 Dr. Kern’s Manual of Indian Buddhism, p. 133. Professor Satischandra 
Vidy4bhusana: Bikramasilé Biswavidydlaya in the Bhdrati, Baisékh, 1316 ; 
ra p. 236. 
eal’s Records of Western Countries, vol. ii, p, 171. 
Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow, p. 39. 
