| Temples & Legends Of Bihar |
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SULTANGANJ |
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| At that time
(606647 A. D.) the area was under the rule of the Khetauri kings of Mal origin and they
were very antagonistic to the Buddhist monks. But Buddhism had another spurt in Anga
during the Pala kings.Under Dharma- pala (c. 770810 A.D.), the son of Gopala, the frontier
of the Anga empire touched the west of the Sone River. Dharmapala was a great Buddhist and
a patron of education and culture. He is supposed to have founded Vikramshila Vihara on
a hillock on the bank of the Ganga in Northern Magadha. Cunningham had identified
Vikramshila Vihara with the village of Silao near Baragaon. Dr. Satish ChandraVidyabhusan
came out with the theory that it was Sultanganj, which was the site of Vikram- shila
University. N. L. Dey had identified it with the Patharghatta, Hill near Colgong, while
Dr. A. P. Banerji Shastri took it to be Keur village near Ausalganj.
There is another theory that Vikramshila University was in the area where there are the
present villages of Orip, Antichak and Madhorampur near Batesharasthan, six miles north of
the Colgong station. Excepting Silao all the other places are in Bhagalpur district.It is
remarkable that Jahangira had persisted in being an important place in the kingdom of Anga
through all the ages, Vedic, Epic, Buddhistic, as well as in the days of the Muslim rule
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