Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s10.14

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the present one is fast losing all its marks by which it can be identified as such. The madrasah, for instance, which was built by the Musalmāns at Asthipura (Place of Bones), where, it is said, the bodies of all the slain in the eighteen days' battle between the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas were collected and burnt, has already disappeared, leaving but a mound which can be recognized as the remnant of a college only by its name of Madrasah-Tilā.¹