Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s2.5

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c32.s2.5

**Site.** Like Nālandā and Valabhī, the University of Vikramaśīlā was also the result of royal benefactions. We owe its history to Tārānāth's well-known work which states that King Dharmapāla founded Śrī Vikramaśīlā Vihāra on a suitable site, a hillock on the bank of the Ganges in Northern Magadha. Cunningham identified it with the village Silāo near Baragaon [*ASR.*, viii, 75], Dr. S. C. Vidyābhushaṇa with Sultanganj in Bhagalpur District, N. L. De with Pātharaghāṭā hill, near Colgong in Bhagalpur District [*JASB.*, vi, 7], while Dr. A. R. Banerji-Sastri of Patna College takes it to be Keur, near Hulsaganj "in direct line with Nālandā (within a distance of 15 miles) and Odantapuri" [*JBORS.*, xv, 276].

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