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There was no fixed scale of monthly or sessional fees prescribed for the students of the different grades or classos in ancient India. It was the duty of the teachors to teach all qualified students free whether they be rich or poor and according to the linda theory the teacher's honorarium 129 Ibid., F.107.

290 becomes payable only when the whole course was over. 130 131 The Brahma Purana also states that one should give daksina to the Guru at any cost. Even if the teacher desires an impossible thing, it should be given to him. One who after studying from the teacher does not satisfy him with the things he desires suffers in hell for an endless period, observing this rule, the sage Bharadvaja took advantage of his student Katha and asked him to marry his ugly sister Revati by way of paying the Gurudaksina as noted before (A.121). The Brahma Purana furnishes another instance where an impossible thing is asked for by the teacher from the students by way of daksina. Thus it is stated that when the sage Sandipani realised that krsna and Balarama waseextraordinary students as they had learnt the whole Dhanurveda with all its secrets within merely sixty-four days and that the knowledge of the astras was grasped by them in one hearing, the sage asked them to enliven his dead son who was carried away by the demon Pancajana. Krsna and Balarama fulfilled their teacher's wish by accomplishing the act with their superhuman powers (194.19-31). 130 Altekar A.S., Ibid., PP. 66-68. + 131 Iccheyam daksinam datum Guro tava manahpriyam Vadasva durlabham va'pi Guro tubhyam namo'stu te " Vidyam prapyapi ye mohatsvaguroh paritosqkam na prayacchanti nirayam te yantyacandratarakam >> 121.14,15. 1