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About ratna sagar in the library of nalanda university?

The library of Nalanda was housed in three building. The first was Ratnododhi, second Ratnasagar and the third Ratnaranjaka. Ratnasagar was a nine storied building housing rare and sacred books .


What is the modern name of rajagriha?

It's Nalanda District


Did the Ghaznavid Turks convert to Buddhism and Hinduism?

Au contraire -- they embraced Islam. In fact, they became agents for the spread of Islam (by military force) into India south of the Indus region. They set the stage for the creation of the Delhi Sultanate in India under Muslim rule. Buddhism for the most part seems to have been actively discouraged (the destruction of the Buddhist "university" at Nalanda in 1193 was part of this). Hinduism, the religion of the majority of the population living in the Delhi Sultanate was tolerated. Hindus had to live under "protected" status which involved paying a small head tax.


Why do scholars focus on religious documents to understand ancient India?

Because of Its 1000 years of slavery, India has lost most of its ancient knowledge. Invaders did not only ruled, but also tried to destroy its culture. Nalanda and Takshila was center of learning. But Muslim invaders destroyed this treasure. Now Archeologist has nothing other than these religious documents.


Site of one of the worlds first libraries?

Ashurbanipal created the world's first libary in Assyria, this libary known as The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds (royal inscriptions, chronicles, mythological and religious texts, contracts, royal grants and decrees, royal letters, assorted administrative documents, and even what would be today called classified documents, reports from spies, ambassadors, etc.)The collection written knowledge in some sort of repository is a practice as old as civilization itself. About 30,000 clay tablets found in ancient Mesopotamia date back more than 5,000 years. Archaelogists have uncovered papyrus scrolls from 1300-1200bc in the ancient Egyptian cities of Amarna and Thebes and thousands of clay tablets in the palace of King Sennacherib, Assyrian ruler from 704-681bc, at Nineveh, his capital city. More evidence turned up with the discovery of the personal collection of Sennacherib's grandson, King Ashurbanipal.The Great Library of Alexandria, a public library open to those with the proper scholarly and literary qualifications, founded about 300bc. When Egypt's King Ptolemy I (305-282bc) asked, "How many scrolls do we have?", Aristotle's disciple Demetrius of Phalerum was on hand to answer with the latest count. After all, it was Demetrius who suggested setting up a universal library to hold copies of all the books in the world. Ptolemy and his successors wanted to understand the people under their rule and house Latin, Buddhist, Persian, Hebrew, and Egyptian works - translated into Greek.