Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India. Nalanda and its Epigraphic Material

Situation.—Ndlanda lies some seven miles to the South-west of Bihar Sharif the headquarters of the sub-division of the same name in the Patna Ditrict of Bihar. [...] The Thera-getthis describes the pathetic story of his death and the heart-rending lamentations of Sari the bereft mother of the great them. [...] Both the Brahmana blethers and.the teachers erected 8 Viharas and placed there the works of the whole Mahayana teaching." Thus we see that' the first Thunder Of Nalanda Vihara was AS6ka the developers of the place of learning were the 500 Acharyas Mudgaragoinin and his brother the next enlarger was' Itahulabhadra and the greatest expander was Nagarjuna. [...] I and from the evidence of the stone inscription of Billiditya which clearly speaks of this agni(kiha.'2 The pond at Baragitort which is sacred to the sun deity is a proof of the locality being known for the worship of the solar deity. [...] In compliance with the :wishes othe Chinese Emperor the King of Magadha placed the services of Paramirtha 8 the learned monk at the disposal of the mission and he not only accompanied the mission on its sojourn in India but went to China with it taking the large collection of manuscripts he bad translated.