Nalanda mahavihara
Nalanda was a renowned Buddhist mahavihara in medieval Magadha, eastern India. Widely considered to be among the greatest centres of learning in the ancient world and often referred to as "the world's first residential university", it was located near the city of Rajagriha, roughly 90 kilometres southeast of Pataliputra.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Hindu-Buddhist monastery in present-day Bihar, India
- Also known as: “Mahavihara of Nalanda”, “Nalanda”, “Nalánda”, “Nalanda (stad)”, “Nalanda Mahavihara”, “Nālandā Mahāvihāra”, “नलन्दा”, “नालन्दा”, “नालन्दामहाविहारः”, “নালন্দা মহাবিহার”, “নালন্দা মহাবিহার বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়”, “நாலந்தா”, “నలంద”, “నలంద విశ్వవిద్యాలయం”, “నలందా విశ్వవిద్యాలయం”, “നളന്ദ സർവകലാശാല”, “നളന്ദ സർവ്വകലാശാല”, “나란다 사”, “나란다사”, “나란타”, “나란타사”, “ナーランダー”, “那兰陀寺”, “那烂陀”, and “那爛陀大學”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Nalanda railway station.
Nalanda railway station
Railway station
Nalanda railway station, is a railway station and… Nalanda railway station is situated 2½ km southeast of Nalanda mahavihara.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nalanda.
Nalanda
Nalanda mahavihara
- Categories: mahavihara, university, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Silao, Nalanda, Bihar, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.13686° or 25° 8′ 13″ north
Longitude
85.44352° or 85° 26′ 37″ east
Elevation
67 metres (220 feet)
Open location code
7MQ74CPV+PC
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yoruba—“Nalanda mahavihara” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Nalanda”
- Arabic: “نالندة”
- Assamese: “নালন্দা মহাবিহাৰ”
- Awadhi: “प्राचीन नालंदा विश्वविद्यालय”
- Balinese: “Nalanda”
- Basque: “Nalanda”
- Belarusian: “Наланда”
- Bengali: “নালন্দা”
- Bhojpuri: “नालंदा”
- Bulgarian: “Наланда”
- Catalan: “Nalanda”
- Cebuano: “Nālanda”
- Cebuano: “Nalënda”
- Chinese: “那烂陀寺”
- Chinese: “那爛陀寺”
- Croatian: “Nalanda”
- Czech: “Nálanda”
- Danish: “Nalanda”
- Dutch: “Nalanda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نالاندا”
- Esperanto: “Nālandā”
- Esperanto: “Nalando”
- Estonian: “Nālandā”
- Finnish: “Nalanda”
- French: “Nâlandâ”
- Georgian: “ნალანდა”
- German: “Nalanda”
- Greek: “Ναλάντα”
- Gujarati: “nalanda”
- Hausa: “Nalanda”
- Hebrew: “נלנדה”
- Hindi: “नालंदा”
- Hindi: “नालन्दा महाविहार”
- Hungarian: “Nálanda”
- Indonesian: “Nalanda”
- Italian: “Nālandā”
- Japanese: “ナーランダ”
- Japanese: “ナーランダ僧院”
- Kannada: “ನಳಂದ”
- Kazakh: “Наланда”
- Korean: “날란다 대승원”
- Korean: “날란다”
- Latin: “Nalanda”
- Latin: “Nāḷandā”
- Latvian: “Nālanda”
- Lithuanian: “Nalanda”
- Magahi: “नालन्दा”
- Maithili: “नालन्दा महाविहार”
- Maithili: “नालन्दा”
- Malay: “Nalanda”
- Malayalam: “നളന്ദ”
- Malayalam: “നാളന്ദ”
- Maltese: “Nalanda Mahavihara”
- Marathi: “नालंदा”
- Mongolian: “Наланда”
- Nepali: “नालंदा”
- Nepali: “नालन्दा”
- Newari: “नालन्दा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nālandā”
- Norwegian: “Nālandā”
- Oriya: “ନାଳନ୍ଦା”
- Pali: “𑀦𑀸𑀴𑀦𑁆𑀤𑀸”
- Persian: “نالاندا”
- Polish: “Nalanda”
- Portuguese: “Nalanda”
- Pushto: “نالاندا”
- Romanian: “Universitatea Nalanda”
- Russian: “Наланда”
- Sanskrit: “नलन्दाविश्वविद्यालयः”
- Sanskrit: “नालन्दानगरम्”
- Sardinian: “Universidade de Nalanda”
- Sinhala: “නාලන්දා”
- Sinhala: “නාලන්දාව”
- Slovak: “Nálanda”
- Slovenian: “Nalanda”
- Spanish: “Nalanda”
- Swedish: “Nalanda”
- Tamil: “நாளந்தா”
- Telugu: “నలందా”
- Thai: “นาลันทา”
- Thai: “นาลันทามหาวิหาร”
- Tibetan: “ནྰ་ལན་དྰ་དགོན།”
- Turkish: “Nalanda”
- Ukrainian: “Наланда”
- Urdu: “نالندہ”
- Urdu: “نالنڈا”
- Venetian: “Nālandā”
- Vietnamese: “Nalanda”
- Wu Chinese: “那烂陀寺”
- Yoruba: “Nalanda”
- “नालंदा”
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