Devee-Turkalunkaru, twenty-five ditto
Mohunu-Vidya-Vachusuputee, twenty ditto
Gangolee-Tukalunkaru, ten ditto
Krishnu-Turku-Bhooshunu, ten ditto
Pranu-Krishnu-Turku-Vageeshu, five ditto
Poorohitu, five ditto
Kashee-Kantu-Turku-Chooramunee, thirty ditto
Kalee-Kantu-Turku-Punchanunu, twenty ditto
Gudadhura-Turku-Vageeshu, twenty ditto
College where the Poetical Works are read
Kalee-Kantu-Turku-Chooramunee, fifty students
Where the Astronomical Works are read
Gooroo-Prusadu-Siddhantu-Vageeshu, fifty students
Where the Grammar is read
Shumboo-Nat’hu Chooramunee, five students.’In 1821, the junior Member and Secretary of the General
Committee of Public Instruction, H.H. Wilson, Esquire, in
prosecuting a special investigation on which he was deputed,
collected at the same time some general information respecting
the state of learning at Nuddea. At that period Nuddea contained
about twenty-five establishments for study. These are called tols,
and consist of a thatched chamber for the pundit and the class,
and two or three ranges of mud-hovels in which the students
reside. The pundit does not live on the spot, but comes to the tol
every day on which study is lawful at an early hour and remains
till sunset. The huts are built and kept in repair at his expense,
and he not only gives instructions gratuitously but assists to
feed and clothe his class, his means of so doing being derived
from former grants by the rajah of Nuddea, and presents made
to him by the zemindars in the neighbourhood at religious
festivals, the value of which much depends on his celebrity as a
teacher. The students are all full-grown men, some of them old
men. The usual number in a tol is about twenty or twenty-five,
but in some places, where the pundit is of high repute, there are
from fifty to sixty. The whole number is said to be between 500
and 600. The greater proportion consists of natives of Bengal,
but there are many from remote parts of India, especially from
the south. There are some from Nepaul and Assam, and many
from the eastern districts, especially Tirhoot. Few if any have
means of subsistence of their own. Their dwelling they obtain
from their teacher, and their clothes and food in presents from
him and the shop-keepers and land-holders in the town or