Introduction
Today many indian’s go to america , canada , australia , germany and different parts of world to complete higher graduation’s
But how many of you know , there was a university in india 2500 years ago where students used to come from china , korea ,japan and many other countries
Yes i was talking about Nalanda University which is one of the oldest university of world and was cultural center of Global education and technology
But saddest thing is , this university was destroyed by invaders by burning 90 lakh books into ashes and trust me reason for destroying this university will make your blood boil
out of history books many people have same question ,
Who destroyed nalanda university ?
What was the real reason behind the collapse of Nalanda university ?
For next 2 minutes im going to tell you unbelievable facts of nalanda and burning libraries ,
Stay tuned and read full article
- Let's start from kingdom of gupta dynasty where nalanda university was built by kumar gupta in 5th century ,Nalanda is located in todays patna city in the state of bihar
- The university had different courses like Philosophy, religion , medicine , science , astronomy, mathematics and many other courses ,
- It is said that university had 2,000 teachers and 10,000 students from different parts of world ,This is the first university in ancient world where debates have started in between students to find more logical answers in every research ,
- With scriptures and writings approximately 90lakh book were recorded in the libraries of nalanda , these books contain many writing which also include technical innovations and space research
- From education to hostel facilities everything was free , only eligibility get admission in university is interest to study
- The main moto of university is to spread knowledge and innovation across world And World was moving to next level in science and innovation until an turkish invader muhammad bin bakhtiyar khilji invaded india
- Khilji was very religious towards islam and was destorying every religion in his invation ,
- In year 1200 Bakhtiyar Khilji had fallen sick and khilji was in such a worst situation that doctors of his religion failed to cure him,but Someone advised him that , cure for this disease can be found only in University of nalanda ,
- Khilji was too proud of his Islamic culture that he refused to get himself treated by a person outside his religion.
- But his health condition was worsening day by day and he was left with no other option other than inviting Rahul Sri Bhadra who was the head of Ayurveda department in Nalanda University
- But Khilji put a condition and asked Sri Bhadra to cure him without giving any hindu cultural medicine like ayurveda ,
- And smartly Sri Bhadra accepted this challenge and next day Sri Bhadra returned with Quran and told khilji to read few pages of quran 3 times a day after having food , confused khilji started reading quran and to everyone’s surprise he was cured very well
- Treatment behind quran is, Sri Bhadra applied ayurveda Medicine in quran pages and khilji used to lick is finger to turn the pages and eat medicine without his knowledge
- After recovery , khilji got to know that hindu scholars are much more capable and intelligent than his religious scholars , so he wanted to convert everyone from that university to islam
- But University rejected his offer peacefully and khilji decided to destroy the root knowledge of hinduism , buddhism and ayurveda ,
- So he killed many monks and teachers by burning the university, The library was so vast and strong that it took three months to completely burn with destruction of more than 90 lakh scriptured books
- This is only few part of hidden history known from Few teachers and students who escaped from nalanda university
- Khilji not just destroyed nalanda , but also many temples and cultural places ,
But what's more hurting is we glorify invaders by naming railway station after Bakhtiyar Khilji
And nalanda has no identity other than line of oldest university in ancient india
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