"Vincent Smith says that the Nalanda University "was destroyed, like the other Buddhist institutions of Bihar, by Muhammad the son of Bakhtyar in AD 1197. The monks who escaped slaughter fled to Tibet, Nepal, or South India, the buildings were reduced to ruinous heaps, and the rich libraries were consumed with fire"
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V. Smith in Enc. of Rel & Eth, 9.127, quoted in Swarup, R. (2015). Hinduism and monotheistic religions. 517ff.
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Nalanda (/'nɑːlənðɑː/) was an acclaimed Mahavihara, a large Buddhist monastery in ancient Magadha (modern-day Bihar), India. The site is located
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