The University of Nalanda c17.6

c17.6

But the regular work of excavating the site was not undertaken until 1915, when the entire site was, first, measured. It extends, as described by the Report, some 1600 feet north-south, by some 800 feet east-west and comprises a long range of monasteries on the east side, and a corresponding range of stūpas on the west, with a couple of monasteries to bound the area on the south. Between the ranges of stūpas and monasteries to west and east runs the central approach avenue from the north.¹ The Nālandā of Mediaeval times, however, unquestionably extended far beyond the limits of the site so far acquired for excavation.