The University of Nalanda c16.4

The University of Nālandā c16.4

Language: English

c16.4

The Moslem chronicler tells us that the onslaught of Bakhtiyār Khilji was so severe and so thorough that the monks (Brāhmaṇs with shaven heads) were killed, one and all, so much so, that there was no one left to explain the contents of books that the victor found at the place.¹

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Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī — Minhāj al-Dīn Jūzjānī