The University of Nalanda c7.158

c7.158

Having, thus, surveyed the landmarks in the history of Indian education, we can say that the time was quite ripe for the rise of a University. And it was just at this opportune moment that the University of Nālandā was founded. For, as we have already seen, Indian thought had then reached its culminating point. Almost all the most important and greatest religions and philosophies of India, which really formed the backbone of the ancient Indian education had been propounded and popularised. And no Indian religion and philosophy worth the name have been preached after the rise of Nālandā save perhaps the Kevalādvaita of Śaṅkara, Suddhādvaita of Vallabha and Viśiṣṭādvaita of Rāmānuja and others. Even these philosophies drew their inspiration from the Upaniṣads and the Brahma Sūtras which are, in fact, a critical survey of the then existing philosophies.