The University of Nalanda c9.10

c9.10

That there was a mango grove, a tank and perhaps the Nāga too, is beyond doubt. For Buddha in his tours always stayed under a grove of trees and Nālandā must have also one. As to the tank, etc., we have the testimony of General Cunningham who, examined the place and carried on some excavations there in the later part of the last century, says, "There is still existing immediately to the south of the ruined monastery a small tank called Kargidya Pokhar, which exactly answers to the position of Nālandā tank and is the identical part of the Nāga.¹