The Vice President said that the ancient Nalanda University housed 10,000 students and 2,000 teachers but was destroyed by Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1193. “(In) 1193 Bakhtiyar Khilji ...

The Vice President said that the ancient Nalanda University housed 10,000 students and 2,000 teachers but was destroyed by Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1193. “(In) 1193 Bakhtiyar Khilji, a reckless ...

This university flourished for 800 years before it was destroyed by invader Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji in the 12th century. This university was a site of great learning, for both Buddhism and subjects ...

They were such that many students from all over the world used to come there to study. There used to be Sanskrit then and no other language,” Bagde said, adding that Nalanda was destroyed by Bakhtiyar ...

The invasion of India by Turko-Afghan general Bakhtiyar Khilji “led to the eventual decline of Buddhism in the region”, Ahmed said. According to UNESCO, the shrine was largely abandoned ...

Built by Emperor Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE, the temple faced destruction following the 12th-century invasions led by Bakhtiyar Khilji of the Ghurid dynasty. In 1891, Anagarika Dharmapala embarked ...