A Short Guide to the Buddhist Remains Excavated at Nalanda

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A Short Guide to the Buddhist Remains Excavated at Nalanda

1931

The present name of the locality is Bargaon which has been identified with the Vihara-grama on the outskirts of which was situated the great Nalanda Monastery the most magnificent and the most celebrated seat of Buddhist learning in the world.. [...] The explanation seems to be that at the time of tjie construction of the later monastery the whole space forming the earlier verandah was packed with the fallen debris of the upper storeys of the earlier monastery and therefore it made no difference whether the foundation of the new walls rested on the remains of old walls or on the hard surface of the faller debris The concrete lintels and beams [...] The little square chapel to the south-west of the Chaitya on the other hand is an earlier structure and the bold carving of the kinnaris on the stone slabs fixed on its north face is ascribable to about the 7th century A. D. Between the floors of the lower and upper monastery cells is a difference of nearly 14 feet. [...] the Birth the Enlightenment the Descent from the rguyastrimsa heaven the offering of bowls of honey by the monkeys the Tairrg of the mad elephant Nagiri the First Sermon in the Deer Park at Benares the Miracle of Sravastii and the Mahaparinirvâna which last alone is missing. [...] Later when the upper moiastmy also fell into ruins the level of the courtyard rose to within a coup of feet of the verandah and cell floors of the latest monastery to be erected at the site ; and the whole of the courtyai d was conczted over.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
17
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144297
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v M. H. Kuraishi view
A short Guide to the Buddhist Remains Excavated at Nalanda
1-7 M. H. Kuraishi view

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