rupees 252-12, averaging about rupees 7-3-6 annually to the students collectively of each school.
District of Burdwan.
This district contains 190 Sanscrit schools, of which two villages contain six each, one village contains five, three villages contain four each, seven villages contain three each, twenty-seven villages contain two each, and eighty-six villages contain one each.
The number of learned teachers is the same as the number of schools, and their average age is 45.2 years. One hundred and eighty are Rarhi, four Varendra, and two Vaidika Brahmans, and four are of the Vaidya or medical caste.
The following are the annual receipts, estimated by themselves, of the whole body of teachers:—
| Rupees. | ||
| 185 | receive in the form of presents at assemblies | 10,928 |
| 1 | receives in presents and monthly allowance | 376 |
| 2 | receive by medical practice | 500 |
| 1 | receives by medical practice and in the form of monthly allowance | 156 |
| 1 | a medical professor, practises as well as teaches gratuitously. |
thus 189 professors of learning receive in all rupees 11,960, averaging to each per annum rupees 63-4-5. Of the two teachers who receive monthly allowances, one is a learned Brahman and the other a learned Vaidya, and the Rajah of Burdwan is the patron of both. There are only two teachers holding endowments of land, one amounting to eight and the other to ten bighas of land, the former yielding about eighteen, and the latter about fifteen, rupees a year.
Kalidasa Sarvabhauma, dwelling at Ambika in the Culna thana, has made a translation into easy Sanscrit and also into Bengali of those portions of Menu and Mitakshara which relate to criminal law, and also a translation into Bengali of that portion of the Mitakshara which treats of the law of usury.
Gurucharana Panchanana, dwelling at Baguniya in the Ganguriya thana, is the author of a drama in Sanscrit, entitled Srikrishna Lilambudhi, containing 50 leaves or 100 pages, in mixed prose and verse, on the amours of Krishna.
Iswarachandra Nyayaratna, dwelling at Bara Belun in the Balkrishna thana, has written three works in Sancrit, viz., Gaura Chandramrita on the incarnation of Chatanya; Manoduta, legendary; and Mukti Dipika, a comparative view of the means of obtaining final absorption according to the six schools of philosophy. These three works contain about 1,200 slokas. He is
