The University of Nalanda c9.168

c9.168

Incidentally, therefore, we can say that Vigrahapāla also, if he was in power, must have done something for an institution that was reared up and maintained by his forefathers. In or about the eighth or ninth year of Mahīpāla's reign, the great temple (perhaps of Bālāditya) was burnt down. And though Mahīpāla himself did not actually repair and restore it, we are told that in the 11th year of his reign, the temple was rebuilt by a person named Bālāditya, a *jyāviśa* of Tiladhaka (modern Telara) who had immigrated from Kauśāmbi.²