GK
INDIAN CULTURE
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Question
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Nalanda
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Nagipatanam
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Sarnath
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Vikramasila
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Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. Balaputradeva founded a Buddhist monastery at Nalanda and requested Devapala through his ambassador to grant five villages for its maintenance.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nalanda was an acclaimed Mahavihara, a large Buddhist monastery in the ancient kingdom of Magadha (modern-day Bihar) in India. The site is located about 95 kilometres southeast of Patna near the town of Bihar Sharif, and was a centre of learning from the fifth century CE to1200 CE. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Nalanda Mahavihara site is in the State of Bihar, in north-eastern India. It comprises the archaeological remains of a monastic and scholastic institution dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE.