As the Islamic invaders advanced through (modern day) Afghanistan & North Western India, they exterminated #Buddhist clergy, they pillaged & pulverised every Buddhist structure — the very word “but”, the idols they so feverishly destroyed, was derived from “Buddha”. -

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- #Nalanda escaped their attention for a while — in part because it was not on the main routes. But soon enough, the marauders arrived, and struck the fatal blow. The ransacking is described in the contemporary Tabakat-i-Nasiri by Maulana Minhaj-ud-din."

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“The greater number of inhabitants of that place were Brahmans, and the whole of those Brahmans had their heads shaven, and they were all slain. There were a great number of books there; -"

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" - And when all these books came under the observation of the Musalmans, they summoned a number of Hindus that they might give them information respecting the import of those books; but the whole of the Hindus had been killed."

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"On being acquainted (with the contents of the books), it was found that the whole of that fortress and city was a college, and in the Hindu tongue, they call a college, Bihar [Vihara].”

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"...the Marxist account of the destruction of this jewel of knowledge. The marxists made up their own version of history & pretty much fantasized about the destruction of Buddhist Vihara, & of #Nalanda.

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"Given what we have seen of Marxist historians even in this brief book, the brazen-faced distortions — to the point of falsehood — do not surprise me.

What does surprise me is that no one looked up either the source that Jha had cited or the text." - Arun Shourie

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/how-history-was-made-up-at-nalanda/

Most of this thread are direct quotes from an article by Arun Shourie, former Rajya Sabha MP. Some paraphrased.

Do read the article about #Marxist distortions of Indian history & about the burning of Nalanda by the barbaric invaders.

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