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>Nalanda University. I feel like the role of Nalanda in Indian history has been greatly exaggerated. The education system was very decentralized, and that's r
by fooker 4y ago
>Nalanda University.
I feel like the role of Nalanda in Indian history has been greatly exaggerated.
The education system was very decentralized, and that's really why most things have survived.
There is not much evidence of concrete knowledge/resources being lost at Nalanda.
- hackernewds 4y agoNalanda U operated for 600 years from 427 CE (!!!) holding over 9m texts [2] The importance of texts from that generation at that scale cannot be overstated [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220120055253/https://www.patnauniversity.ac.in/e-content/social_sciences/aih/MAAIH53.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20220120055253/https://www.patna... [2] https://www.myindiamyglory.com/2017/09/11/nalanda-9-million-books-burnt/ https://www.myindiamyglory.com/2017/09/11/nalanda-9-million-...
- fooker 4y agoThe 9 million figure is exaggerated by a few order of magnitudes. Also, think about it in this way: if some of the manuscripts there was the only copy available, were those really impactful?