“…With two hundred horsemen only, Muhammed-bin-Bakhtiar was able to capture the capital. He destroyed the famous monastery of Nalanda, and the image of the the goddess Tara, which was considered to possess great magic power, was broken and thrown down, and the great library was burnt and destroyed. The same thing happened in the case of the great monastic university of Vikramasila…”

(Rahul Sankrityayan, The Rise and Fall of Buddhism in India, Maha Bodhi Journal, Dec 1932, March-April 1933, Calcutta)

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