The University of Nalanda c14.16

c14.16

It is said that in course of time, Kāmpāla was born as Dharmapāla (Devapāla?), the renowned King of Magadha. He built the monastery of Vikramaśilā on that hill. The Vihāra became known by four names in the four quarters. In Tibet, it was famed under the name of Vikramaśilā. Owing, according to some writers, to the high moral character of its monks, and also because of its being the site, where a certain Yakṣa or genius of the name of Vikrama was suppressed, it was called Vikramaśilā.