The birthplace near Rājagṛha of the Buddha's disciple Śāriputra, which much later, starting in the time of the Gupta kings (5th century), became one of the great centres of learning in Buddhist India. It was destroyed around 1200 A.D. [WOMPT, 1998] [ZT, 2006]

The famous monastic university built at the birthplace of Śāriputra some distance north of Bodhgayā in Bihar and near Rajgir or Vulture Peak where Śākyamuni Buddha expounded the sutras of the Prajñāpāramitā. The place where many of the greatest masters of the Mahāyāna lived, studied, and taught, Nālandā had a long and illustrious history. [TPQ, 2010]

One of the most important monastic universities of medieval India. It was located at the birthplace of Shariputra to the north of Bodh Gaya (in present-day Bihar), not far from Vulture Peak, where the Buddha expounded his teachings on the Perfection of Wisdom. Nalanda grew to an immense size; it was famous all over Asia and was attended and administered by many of the greatest masters of Mahayana Buddhism. Founded in the second century and destroyed by the armies of Muhammad Khalji in 1235, Nalanda existed for a thousand years. [WL, 2010]