21/07/2024
Universities Of Ancient India
Bharat is the Only Country to have University Education In Ancient Times. One of the oldest universities in the world – Takshashila University (Taxila) and Nalanda.
The reason why Bharat is known as Vishwa guru is because Bharat gave countless theories in science, mathematics and astronomy. Thanks to Ancient civilisation and research of ancient Bharat's sages.
Education has always been given great prominence in Indian society since the times of the vedic civilization, with gurukul and ashrams being the centers of learning.
And with evolving times, a large number of centers of learning were established across ancient India of which Takshashila and Nalanda are the most famous ones known today.
Chanakya, Panini, Charaka, Vishnu Sharma, Jivaka, Gunamati and Sthiramati many great scholars graduated from these Universities.
Thousand years ago India used to run world biggest Universities. The University was particularly renowned for science, especially medicine, and the arts, but both religious and secular subjects were taught, and even subject such as archery or astrology.
Students come from distant parts of India. Many Jataka of early Buddhist literature mention students attending the University. It is believed that over 10,000 students from China, Babylon, Syria and Greece in addition to Indian students studied there.
Nalanda University was established by Shakraditya of Gupta dynasty in modern Bihar during early 5th century and flourished for 600 years till 12th century.
Nalanda was the world’s first university to have residential quarters for both students and teachers. It also had large public lecture halls. Students from countries like Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Indonesia, Persia and Turkey came to study in this university.
The library of this university was the largest library of the ancient world and had thousands of volumes of manuscripts on various subjects like grammar, logic, literature, astrology, astronomy, and medicine.
The library complex was called Dharmaganja, and had three large buildings: the Ratnasagara, the Ratnadadhi, and the Ratnaranjaka. Ratnadadhi was nine stories tall and stored the most sacred manuscripts including the Prajnaparamita Sutra and the Samajguhya.
Taxila as it is called today, Takshashila University established around 2700 years ago was home to over 10500 students where the students from all across the world used to come to attain specialization in over 64 different fields of study like
vedas, grammar, philosophy, ayurveda, agriculture, surgery, politics, archery, warfare, astronomy, commerce, futurology, music, dance, etc. Famous graduates of this University include the ones like Chanakya, Panini, Charaka, Vishnu Sharma, Jivaka etc. This is the world’s oldest university.
