The University of Nalanda c16.14

c16.14

During the interregnum that followed Harṣa's disappearance from the political horizon, and the rise of the Pālas in Bengal, we do not know exactly what course the religion followed. But, when with the emergence of the Pālas from the political chaos in Bengal as her elected kings, the religion seemed to have found new champions, its internal degeneration had already set in, to which a death blow was given, by the mighty, blood-smeared hand of Islam.