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@article{198692,
        author = {Dr. Meera Kumari},
        title = {A Valuable Heritage of Bihar “VIKRAMSHILA UNIVERSITY”},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {9275-9279},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=198692},
        abstract = {Our country India has gained its fame globally in the field of knowledge of science since ancient times, and has worked to guide the whole world. 
In this, if we look at the background of Bihar, then it is found that Nalanda University was established in the Gupta period in the sixth century, which enlightened the whole world with the light of its knowledge and in this sequence, the Pala Kings, who ruled Bengal and Bihar region in the eighth century, established famous universities like Udantapuri, Sompuri, Vikramshila etc. In which Vikramshila was a very important university. It was established by Pala’s King, Dharampal in a village called Antichak on the Pathar Ghat hill, 24 miles east of Bhagalpur in Bihar,1 at some distance from which the river Ganga flowed. You can gather an insight of this from many important sources, for instance, the ruins and relics, many sculptures found there, architecture, writings of Palas kings and Pragya Paramita, which is the main book of Mahayana and Indian and Tibetan texts etc., especially the writings of the 16th-17th century Tibetan Lama Taranath, which was fully capable of explaining their actual situation. On the basis of this, it can be said that Vikramshila University was a Buddhist Mahavihara. The institution had a great reputation world wide attracting scholars from abroad to get education here.
It is said this Buddhist Mahavihara or University is said to have gotten the name from, Vikram which means superior and was the Panch sheel of Buddhism or five moral precepts, that are: practice of nonviolence, not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to lie, and not to take drugs etc. The second belief is that Pala King Dharampal, who was the founder of Vikramshila University, had the title Vikramsheel, hence the name of this university was Vikramshila. This university was first seen by Cunningham2 in 1918 AD. Hamilton historically inspected the remains found in the Antichak village3. The Old Man was the first person to link the remains found in Antichak in 1930 to Vikramshila Bihar. Many scholars tried to know its history, but it remained unexplored for many years. However, between 1960 and 1969, with the efforts of Professor B.P. Singh of Patna University, the work of excavation of Antichak started, after that between 1972 and 1982, the work was carried forward by the Archaeological Survey of India and this work is still in progress, but it is still not fully disclosed yet, but on the basis of the excavation that has been done, its outline can be explained.},
        keywords = {Pala, Vikramshila, Antichak, Buddhist, Viharas, Stupa, Terracotta, Dwarpanditas, Vajrayana.},
        month = {April},
        }