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११९७ इस्वी मे बिहार पर मुस्लिम-आक्रमण हुआ, और उसमे यह विश्व- विद्यालय नष्ट हुआ । लेकिन अभी भी बिहार राज्य मे राजगृह के पास विद्यमान बडगाँव देहात मे इस विश्वविद्यालय के उध्वस्त खण्डहर देखने मे आते है |”
Rua) Taranath, in his History of Buddhism (of C.A.D. 1500), records the tradition that Nalanda was the birth place of Sariputta whose Chaitya was seen by Ashoka who added a temple to it. And ‘in this way the first founder of the Nalanda Vihara was Ashoka.’
(टोल Taranath makes Nagarjuna spend a large part of his
life at Nalanda, with which he also associates his pupil”
५८ er I-tsing stayed for his studies at Nalanda for the long period of ten years (A.D. 675-685), during which he collected there some 400 texts amounting to 500,000 Slokas (P.XVID. This shows that Nalanda possessed a well-equipped library. Information on the Nalanda University Library is given in the Tibetan accounts, — from which we know that the library, situated in a special area known by the poetical name of Dharmaganj (Mart of Religion), comprised three huge buiidings, called Ratnasangara, Ratnodadhi and Ratnaranjaka, of which Ratnsangaro, which was a nine-storeyed building, specialized in the collection of rare sacred works like Pranaparamita-Sutra and Tantrika books like Samajaguhya and the like. “ After the Turushka raiders had made incursions in Nalanda, the temples and Chaitya there were spared by a sage named Mudita Bhadra.’”?
“ Two notable Muslim Kings who destroyed the Buddhist shrines were Mahmud Gazinav and Bakhiaruddin Khilji. The former plun- dered the Buddhist shrines at Kot Kangra (Himachal Pradesh) in the 10th Century and the latter destroyed the monasteries of Nalanda, Vikramasila and Odantapuri which were living institutions till the
१ : दीनबंधु, पृ. ३०-३१.
1 , Mukarji, P 557.
2 , Ibid, P. 574.