Entrance exams in medieval India-- How Asia's greatest university Nalanda admitted students
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Nalanda, the Buddhist mega-monastery in present-day Bihar, was perhaps the single most famous centre of higher learning in all of Asia. It attracted students from Java, Tibet, China, and possibly even Mongolia and Korea. How did it rise to such eminence? As controversies rage about entrance examinations and higher studies in India today, Anirudh Kanisetti explains the lessons of the past.
Sources:
I-tsing, Takakasu, J. (trans.) A Record of Buddhist Religion as Practicsed in India and the Malay Archipelago (A.D. 671-695). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896.
Krishnan, K.G. Karandai Tamil Sangam Plates of Rajendrachola I. Archaeological Survey of India, 1984.
Mookerji, Radha Kumud. Ancient Indian Education (Brahminical and Buddhist). London: Macmillan and co., 1947.
Sastri, KA Nilakanta. "Nālanda." Journal of the Madras University XIII (2). Reprint.
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5:25 Dude you literally spend 10 seconds describing the main event that killed Nalanda university.
Also you didn't even name Khilji by his name.
You didn't mention why the university that had survived for centuries disappeared within decades after the raid of " Turkic invaders ".
Just some vague " Turkic raider"
Do you think Hindu kings like cholas who survived Islamic invasion started favoring Bramhins because the Buddhist centers like Nalanda and Takshashila were destroyed by "Turkic invaders"?
Bro have some courage, some guts so that you could discuss Indian history.
your question is something he answered. The State(cholas) preferred Brahmins cuz they were willing to work for the State. Budhhist likely would have preferred to work for their own monastic order.
there is lot more history to Nalanda than just the turkic invasion. Thanks to Anirudh in these insights.
@@rizvinbkyeah but what was the main event that doomed it ?
Yeah perhaps the preference over Bramhins caused it demise.
But does it justifies him brushing off and cruising over the Turkic invasions ?
A disclaimer: I am not RSS type of guy.
I am just interested in History.
As a student of history, it seemed dishonest and timid of him that he didn't went further into this "Turkic invasions" .
Yes the author is biased
@@YetkhaPakoAson If you've been in far right circles you'll often see anti-semites use bankers to build a narrative around jews as a whole
It's the same case here, brahmins being the bankers with which they create the narrative of Hinduism itself being destructive
Bakhtiar Khilji got sick in a place now known as Bakhtiarpur, where he was treated by his hakims for months with no recovery at all. The peasants recommend a visit to Nalanda for treatment. Bakhtiar Khilji's minister Mahmaad ( mahmaadpur near Bakhtiarpur) called doctors from Nalanda who treated Bakhtiar back to health. Hakims got jealous & enraged with knowledge of doctors from Nalanda, they conspired & persuaded Bakhtiar to destroy Nalanda as a religious deed. Bakhtiar destroyed Nalanda & it's library burnt for six months.
- Sarkari Guide in Nalanda
Bakhtiyaar khilji ran away like a chicken after destroying nalanda... The senas had destroyed and anhilated khiljis army and khilji barely escaped with less than one fourth of his men.. They hide the complete history.
Basically he is saying it's not University because it was offering religious and Vedic studies. Hey Ram
duh. He's right. It's like calling madarsas as schools
They pick up some random young guy to make news based on the width of his glass frame...
the print should come and see the comments..
LOL
@@suyashtrivedi7554WhatsApp university Graduates. Nothing more to see
I loved the transition he made from Nalanda to Brahmins. The decline of Nalanda is not because of Khilji but Brahmins. I don’t know who will buy this.
Don't see history of such important institute from such shallow lens.. it's very much layered, nuanced.. just like today's politics..
You and I, both, know very well that there are many people in India who'll stand by this information. But the main target of videos like this aren't Indians, but the people outside of India who might actually start appreciating Indian/Hindu ethos. This video is for them so that the Left-lobby can reinstate the fact that everything wrong in India is because of Hinduism and every other faith is what does good here.
@@karanpandey1349 he unlike you mentions his source. He clearly mentions that Buddhist monasteries accross the country were loosing their importance to the state .because they were not willing to be as accomodating to the state as brahmins were .That's it .if you find this simple pragmatic ,historic fact to be offensive then that's because of your pre-existing bias .
Nalandas decline did start with the turkic raid by kilji (an unprotected rich monastry is an easy target for raiders) but it was the states unwillingness to support the institution financially that led to its end .Had the state wanted it ,the damage to nalanda could have been repaired after the raid .why didn't it happen ? Because nalanda had to compete for the funding along with other religious institutions. The one which beneifited the state the most would obviously receive its patronage .
Nalanda wasn't a buddhist monastry. At any given point there were more brahmins at nalanda than buddhists. (Source: Writings of chinese travellers)
This whole video was made to take out his frustration against brahmins.😂
Somehow almost every great scholar of ancient india was brahmin but I am supposed to believe that they were not there in nalanda and takshshila.
Toolkit of leftist history enthusiasts - Every great thing in india was done by Buddhist and every bad thing by brahmins.
PS - I am not a brahmin, just that this video is clearly an agenda driven and I had to reply.
Kyunki tu hai andhbhakt😂
@@Darth_manickAur tu naam bhar ka Bhimta.
@@Darth_manickdude its not about being andhbhakt or not.
If you actually see this video itself carefully and without preconceived bias, the UA-camr himself mentions that the entrace exam required knowledge of both Buddhist texts and Vedic texts.
If the university had nothing to do with Hinduism, why they required the knowledge of Vedic texts ?
Think critically
If nalanda wasn't Buddhist monastery then Vedic scriptures are not hindu .
@@x-o-9413 rushis written vedic scipts... if they are not hindu then tomorrow you will say brahmins are not hindu as their disciples become brahmins
Buddhism lost to Brahmins because Buddhism was simply a philosophy, people were going to the Brahmins for all rites and rituals anyway. Followers of Buddha later turned it into a full fledged religion which Buddha himself had told not to, by that time Hinduism was deeply rooted in the society and so Buddhism spread to places outside of India.
PLEASE EVERYONE WRITE TO THE PRINT OFFICE ABOUT HIM.
Everybody is Buddhist in India but because of politics everybody shows different ideas.
@@ansh_u_r Indian Muslims too?
You clearly don’t know nothing about Buddhism . Buddhism has rites,rituals,chants,mantras everything. A lot of present day Hindu philosophy has been copied from Buddhism. Buddha never denied existence of things beyond human realm he simply said to not be bothered with it as it will be of no use to a lay person. Buddhism is NOT atheism!
@@CherryBlossoms112I am talking about Buddhism of Vedic times not Buddhism of modern day
No mention of Bakhtyar Khilji! amazing insights Sir jee! Nalanda's decline is entirely it's own doing and of course the dreaded brahmins! Wasn't there another theory (myth) going around that it was the brahmins who burned down the complex? This person should have concluded with that, would've been like a cherry on top of this shity sundae!
That "Brahmin burning down Nalanda" incident is actually mentioned in the book "History of Buddhism" by Taranath, a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Not exactly a historical book. And it was not specifically "Brahmin", but an ascetic who felt insulted by words of 2 Buddhist students of Nalanda.
@@somnathdatta6991tirthankas arent brahmins
@@somnathdatta6991
1. the book is written 500 years later
2. No Brahmins mentioned, it's tirthikas
3. Says two tirthikas did Black magic and burned whole complex
4. No other tried to stop?
There's a things that Brahmin don't like Ashoka samarat because he promotes Buddhism more than their religion.
@@freeriderfact793Ashoka came to power thanks to chanakya , a Brahmin... One of the earliest disciples of Buddha was a Brahmin himself... On the contrary Buddhists are pretty much like modern day muslims who felt entitled to appeasement from the kings and when they didn't they felt inferior...
Kudos for serving your masters to distort history. But can never able to change the information from primary sources that too in this day and age
The Print should be ashamed of doing this pimping work .. this is Print's contribution to NEET controversy.
Hence Bakhtiyar khilji was innocent reformer who helped ppl by ending the corrupt nepotst institution of Nalanda Univ 😂
Yes I know nepotism brahmin, Janou Dhari Rahul Legacy of PANDIT Nehru 😅😅😅
The only reason they care about Buddhism nowadays is because Ambedkar converted to it. And Ambedkar was a political man, not a religious one, he did all that for political reasons, he wanted to keep Dalits under the Dharmic fold hoping that Hinduism will reform again the same way it did back during the Vedic times when Buddhism first started spreading in India.
@@dev7155gp4j33t Tera baap Pandit Nehru
buddhism is not a separate religion for hinduism
don't trivialise a topic
खिलजी एक बहुत बड़े आदर्श व्यक्ति थे उनका शिक्षा के क्षेत्र में बहुत योगदान था😂😂
YE BHIMTE AFGHANISTAN ME BANAYENGE NAYA NALANDA...SORRY SORRY WAHA TO G@@D
Nalanda University didn't came from Arabs and Turks. Whether it were Buddhists or Brahmin-hindus, it was a University of Bharatvarsh which because a victim of Khilji dynasty's religious fanaticism.
No interconnected Logic, storytelling without interlinked facts, Nalanda was Vedic University, Please verify the SYLLABUS, It is full of Vedic Syllabus, like Shiksha, VYakarana, Nirukta, Chandas, Kapa Sutra, Darshana Shaastras, and Buddha Darshana one subject as Purva Paksha. The syllabus is the Vedic Gurukula Syllabus even today. What is there related to Buddhism? If you want to call it a Buddhist University, then why not Buddhist SYLLABUS thought? LOGIC Less Storytelling. Disappointed as a Print viewer.
SHEKHAR GUPTA JAISE LOG B HAI THE PRINT ME AUR AISE CHU BHI...
It was a buddhist university where Darshana were taught (mostly for khandan). And who said there was no buddhist syllabus. You are no different then those bhimtas.
Buddhism is an extension of the main upanishads that preceded Gautama Buddha. Subsequent Buddhist scholars found the need to make it look like a separate faith and invented Soonya Vaada. Buddha himself never suggested that there is ultimately nothing because he knew it was illogical. In modern India, people with political agendas are trying to malign aspects of Hinduism. This, indeed, is very sad. Mother India will not forgive them.
It means you didn't understand Buddhism.
@@ansh_u_r It is now widely known that most of the basic tenets of Buddhism are derived from the Upanishads. I'd like to refer you to "A History of Indian Philosophy" by S. Dasgupta and it's chapter on Buddhism for further reading. There the author details the connection between the Upanishads and Buddhism.
Budda was born as hindu.
His connection and his religions connection with hinduism ends there.
Nothing more nothing less
@@JohnAbraham-gh6dzyeah like u know more than the literal native of people who lived where he lived and the actual teaching and culture which he and his disciples left, read rigveda dude there is part of philosophy of nastik there, meaning in short u can be a non believer in God yet be a hindu and it was written way before bhuddism started
@@JohnAbraham-gh6dz YOU CANT BE MORE WRONG.
anirudh, i was a fan of yours. after this video, im not and started hating u. what did poor brahmins did to you, so ur bashing them left and right ?
on a side note, i found out why before and after independence, brahmins come to manage village revenue system. example - patels, patwaris, karanam etc., due to inefficient buddhists. that asshole NTR removed karanam system in erstwhile combined Andhra Pradesh. this led to downfall of brahmins in telugu states.
I think we should report this video for misleading and hate speech. Even baba saheb ambedkar wrote that hindu and brahmins were the one who got killed by khilji and bhudist ran away to nepal , bhutan
I think WhatsApp university graduates should stick to Arnab Goswami for news
UA-cam WILL NOT DO ANYTHING ..ISKI ITNI REACH HI NI H JO ZADA REPORT HO...UNSUBSCRIBE THE PRINT...THEY SHOULD FEEL THE EFFECT OF UNVERIFIED NEWS
Leftist Propaganda 😂😂😂
He forgot to mention Bakhtiyar Khilji was himself a Brahmin. His real name was Khilawanprasad Jha. He was born in Bihar. That's why he destroyed Nalanda as he was against Buddhists. Brahmins are cause for every problem India is facing. You also forgot to mention Khilawan Prasad Jha ( aka Mohammad Bakhtiar Khilji ) skipped him just by mentioning as some Turkish Invader that's injustice. But let it be, he was a Brahmin and that's we shouldn't give him credit. Let's make India free from Brahmins one by one then only India will become super power educated and a utopia. Until the Brahmins exists there will be inequality in society so let's me India Brahmin free.
HAHAHAHA...THE BEST
Best 🤣
anirbuddha , yet again , downplaying somethings and exaggerating somethings by selectively picking sources and quoting them without giving full context . Thank gods we now have internet to crosscheck , "eminent" historians can't keep getting away with it now :)
Which part is he downplaying ? And which part over stating?
EVERYONE PLEASE WRITE TO THE PRINT OFFICE ABOUT HIM.
Exactly, this shows how dangerous and sneakily powerful the Left is,
If it can distort facts and history in today's day and age,
Imagine what more damage the left has caused
@@Arka-cs6scdude don't be so oblivious, a video made about nalanda uni and the mention of khilji was not for even a min, how does that work common build some spien
NOT FIT TO TALK ABOUT HISTORY.
Kuch naya likho , throughout comment box yek baat likh raha he . Rss agent hena ? 😂
@@SHANSHOW- hara rang pyara lage ho ho ho
From where did this vedick come in to picture.. no bambin literature had any mention about nalanda mahavihar
Accounts of Chinese travellers. That is most of the sources on Nalanda
@@raghav5903 which Chinese travellers mentioned about vedick learning there?
Thank god, you didn't portray khilji as a Hero! Nothing but distortion of facts!
PLEASE EVERYONE WRITE TO THE PRINT OFFICE ABOUT HIM.
He is biased so called history expert.
Everyone commenting how he is peddling falsehood or anti-brahmanism, but I don't think that is true. In fact, what Anirudh is saying is basically common knowledge for anyone who follows Indian history. He is not saying that Brahmins instigated Khilji to destroy Nalanda, like many Brahmin haters on twitter. He is making a larger point how Brahmins outdid the Buddhists in order to secure state patronage and that's a fair point. Loss of state patronage (though it never meant that the state pursued anti-buddhist policy, they were just not favoured) coupled with the Bhakti movement becoming popular led to the decline of Buddhism in India. Also, Bhakti movement only took away the wealthy classes away from Buddhism as the masses never followed Buddhism anyway. The wealthy classes started to donate to the temples instead of the monasteries which led to the gradual decline of Buddism.
By the time Khilji arrived, Buddhism was already but dead in north India.
Total bullshit
The whole world can see now the difference between education in the Buddhist world and Hindu world.
I'm from Bodhgaya and paswan which come under SC category but We are not Buddhist why? We are the one who are tired of Caste discrimination and lord Buddhism don't believe in Caste. there's tons of Muslim here but not native Buddhist.
Nalanda University was not Buddhist monastery but Buddhist monastery were partially part of Nalanda University. Aside from Buddha’s teaching and related books there were several different subject books like astronomy, astrology, Ayurveda, Vedic mathematics etc. Bihar and Eastern UP were focus of foreign and local monks due to Buddha’s life were all around that place.
Don’t play blame game without knowledge. 🤦🏻
According to SO called liberal and leftist, every problem is due to India (on international platform), Hindus (on religious ground) and Brahmins (when topic on Indian society). 😅😂
From 400 AD to 1100 AD Nalanda thrives but suddenly when some kung decided to prefer Brahmin settlements,nalanda died. .wow
More colonial manure!
There were many Brahmins who were Buddhists too.
Fantastically researched episode by Mr Kanisetti. He is undoubtedly best story teller of our time.
This guy is another Barkha Dutt...
I know little of Nalanda's pre eminence, but granaries overflowing to the point of rotting seems like a side gig of the Master of the granaries with the hooch distillers outside the complex.
Inki jalne lagi 😂
Yehan pe jalna kahase Aya ? Seems anything Buddhist is allergic to you
No anything antihindu and anti India is allergic @@Arka-cs6sc
Bimte cry
EVERYONE PLEASE WRITE TO THE PRINT OFFICE ABOUT HIM.
Now , raamte crying . 😂
I feel very sad that buddhism is vanished from india. Hope atleast 15 per cent buddhist exist.but Not in majority. If They are in majority of india at the time of turkic invasion then today all of india have atleast 60 percent of muslim just like how buddhist majority sindh bengal kashmir converted rapidly within a few centuries. But hindu part still able to retain population and local cultural control as buddhism is too weak to defend themselves in every aspect. They can't able to get political support too.
Can you tell the people who make nalanda what kind of education are given by nalanda you just want to serve your agenda 😡 not even the name of a bakhtiyar khilji
Another great episode by Anirudh.
Nothing great. He is trying to whitewash bakhtiyar khiliji
@@pribrazakpritam4931May be it's just you who want to put everything on some invader. Why did Nalanda last after Hunas or Shashanka destroyed parts of it, but couldn't after Khilji? Lack of patronage , among many other factors are responsible for the decline of Nalanda, and Buddhism as a whole.
@@pribrazakpritam4931 EVERYONE PLEASE WRITE TO THE PRINT OFFICE ABOUT HIM.
@@grapeshottHunas didn't make it as far as Nalanda. They destroyed Takshashila though.
Emperor of Dolts makes a return to teach history class.
Thumbnail pe caption aise likho ki thumbnail dekhkar hi log ladne lage! Bhai talented to ho.
Those who is saying this is leftist propaganda so please answer me. I'm from Bodhgaya and I'm paswan by Caste which comes under SC category but We are not Buddhist,we are Hindus. Why there is no native Buddhist but there's Hindus and muslim don't you think that doesn't sounds weird.
All the Buddhists migrated East to escape the Islamic Invasion under Bhaktiyar Khaliji, Learn Hstory. Pala Empire was annhilated and citiens fled East to Myanmar and Thailand.
i feel like i am hearing Shahi Tharoor.
Dude, sometimes also read real history. He seems to be brainwashed. Try to read comments from your own video. BS.
Nalanda was founded by a "Hindu" Emperor, Chandragupta. From its inception it was a Hindu institution with overwhelmingly Hindu professor. Therefore the Buddhists never lost to Hindus.
Kumaragupta
Correction!!
NEET has a Success rate of less than 1 percent DUDE!!
Not 7-8 percent as you mentioned!!
Third class only working for money not for our country bharatvarsh
Just because facts are inconvenient doesnt mean you reject them
How ? , you spreading misinformation.
EVERYONE PLEASE WRITE TO THE PRINT OFFICE ABOUT HIM.
Haa , tumhe please karnewala history nahi hena , aisa he lagega tereko .
good episode. Easy to understand.
Your command over the language is superb and narration is excellent
This will burst several WhatsApp algorithms which have no relation with actual history. Good nice work .
gudda muyira
I knew i have heard your voice before . Echoes of India was my favorite. Hope to see you more
So let me guess a hindu build tge uni, most of the syllabus was of vedic teaching, most of the students were hindus and the hindus kings were the ones who were protecting these uni from imvaders , the hindus were the ones who aaligned towards bhuddist teaching ( werent converting the way that we see today but bhuddism were seen just as nastik teaching which is a part of vedas ) , the syllabus was hindu yet the uni was bhusdiat and destroyed by hindus, WOW, that as well when bhuddism untill 100 yrs earlier wasnt seen as a different religion from hinduism just a part of its NASTIK teaching and even today more than 80% of hindus believe gautam buddha was a vushnu incarnation but some how accord to the print hindus broke the nalanda
He is probably an actor and reading a shitty script written by some wannabe historians.
Yeah. He should've got his information from whatsapp or perhaps even better,"maan ki baat" from the non-biological beings
@@IndiaObserver-no2sqwhat thr narrator is reading, that itself is a whatsapp fantasy, khilji also killed people in Nalanda, just burning part doesnt explain the sword attacks
To get acceptance in liberal circles Brahmins must be bashed. I challenge you to fact check Ruchika Sharma Nalanda claim
I think this video is perfect example of fake news peddling.
FYI Buddha never was against VarNa! He was himself was a Kshathriya. Without understanding the basic teaching of Buddha which is no different from that of VEdAntha it is a stupid idea to talk of division between varNas etc. You are only trying to solidify your own narrative which is clouded in delusion. Hope you and your channel learns some intelligent stuff.
Haahahahahah ... Nothing left to do except laugh at these poor souls trying to play victims.
Don't waste an opportunity to paper over muslim atrocities, in this case under the pretext of high scholarship.
Print is propaganda always on peak
Where come vedas in this topiv,,?
Anirudh bhai ne mast bola..
Please write to the print about this biased historian
Please make video on Kanchipuram, Ujjain, Varanasi and Sharda peeth educational centres of medieval Bharat.
why you streching on vedic? it was a buddhist monesty nothing to do with vedic and no evidance of this.
I don't understand what was objective of the video..
Against Brahmins
CREATE CASTE DIVISION
@@suyashtrivedi7554it is there from thousands of years. What are you talking about? Accept it bro and change the society because if you want to solve anything then first you have to accept the problem.
Not Brahmins but to Vaishnavism.....
Vocab bahut acha bhai..tumhara word power made easy padha hai kya..mein bhi padh raha hu..jab padh lunga phir Tera video dekhunga..abhi kuch samaj nahi aya...
There was nothing like Brahmin in that era stop yours nonsense
Nice One
Nalanda was never a Buddhist university. It was a university of Dharmic Studies. At that time, Buddhism was under patronage of Indian Kings hence that religion got more focus.
It was accept it
@@freeriderfact793 no I wont because you distort facts
@@freeriderfact793 it was founded by Kumargupta 1 - a Hindu King. Its curriculum included Vedic Studies apart from Buddhism.
@@yashchauhan7448 It was a Buddhist University but not rigid like Hindu. They used to talk about Humanity and progressive idea not some trash like manu smriti or Sharia. Everyone was free there to express theirs beleif. No one give a sh@t about you people. world know it's Buddhist University. Fck off
Those evil scheming Bramins.. From Chankya to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
Who are you to distort our history and culture?
Who has given this authority to you to do this?
You have to utilise your mouth and English speaking skills in good way and enlarge your knowledge
These Pajeets finding Buddhist & Brahmins . Where as in the Tibetan Texts there are various examples of Buddhist Brahmins.
😂
Nalanda QP scam by Sanatanis😂😂😂😂😂😂
WTF Misprint is the new propaganda channel. I want to know who is funding Misprint. 😂 Disclaimer " No Soros agents were harmed in this comment". " Some people who took Soros interview are sad that the BJP Won. " Trying to divide Buddhists and Hindus"."What a Propaganda Misprint ". " What is the authenticity of all this shit vommitted here.
The most biased and lied channel
Leftist propegnda 😂
Excellent as usual ❤
Totally wrong
@@chitrasingh9234 cite your sources and counter his arguments and facts
3:58 corruption existed in Nalanda too...
Everything was fine but calling the land of bharat as south asia?
Readers what do you think?
Just report waste of media
Awesome presentation ❤
Please.hindi.speak
Manipulator par Excellence!
It was the Ghaznavid Empire NOT Chola Empire which was the MIGHTIEST IN THE SUB CONTINENT IN THE 11TH CENTURY 👎🏻
😂😂
😂😂😂😂
This guy is good
Pathetic
Modern day romila thapar
It attracted students from the then civilised world. At that time Europeans were not that civilised.
Mukharji is a big time lier, no where Huen Tsang mentiond anytning related to vedic
Subjects like science, astrology and logic were also taught
Left wing channel
Video seems biased against Nalanda University and favours South Indian Tamilians Chola Culture
Jai budha
ab bhimte ko sunao yh sb jake.
You are berojgar?
Disagree