when i-tsing, another chinese traveller, visited vallabhi in the last quarter of the seventh century, he found vallabhi as a great center of learning including buddhism. gunamati and sthiramati were two famous buddhist scholars of vallabhi in the middle of the seventh century. vallabhi was famous for its catholicity and the students from all over the country, including the brahmana boys, visited it to have higher education in secular and religious subjects. we are told that the graduates of valabhi were given higher executive posts.