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India Lost Her Greatest Wonder 800 Years Ago


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More than 800 years after it was reduced to ashes in an invasion by a medieval ruler, Nalanda University sprang back to life l in the historic city of Rajgir in Bihar on Monday.

Nalanda was the world's first university Where great souls like buddha Mahavira Kautilya and Paninni stayed and taught . Founded between 550 and 600 BC and imparted knowledge to thousands of students ,where courses were drawn from every field of learning secular and sacred , native and foreign Science Mathematics, Metallurgy, Medicine, Astronomy , Philosophy, Logic, Physics , Anatomy , Yog shastras , Vedas Scriptures and even philosophies from abroad and across the seas which attracted pupils and scholars from Greece , Korea Japan , China Tibet Indonesia Persia and Turkey ...an architectural masterpeice accommodation over 10,000 students and 2000 teachers
with eight seprate compounds , 10 Temples , meditation halls classrooms , lakes and parks . The library was a seven story building where texts were meticulously prepared.
In AD 1193 Muslim Invaders under Bhaktiyar Khalji Khajli captured it . He asked is there a Kuran here ?. Thousands of monks were burned alive and beheaded as he uprooted Buddhism and planted ISLAM by sword
. The building were demolished Centuries and Centuries of manuscripts were turned to Ash and Dust . The burning of the library went on for months .
"Smoke from the burning manuscripts hung for days like a dark pall over the low hills "
INDIA LOST HER GREATEST WONDER 800 YEARS AGO

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