Around the central quadrangle, a set of hostel rooms. Small rooms, with a hard bed, and a door in the middle. All the rooms face the quadrangle, where the students would tend to hang out and gather in groups. a travel.log by Surajit Basu
Around the central quadrangle, a set of hostel rooms. Small rooms, with a hard bed, and a door in the middle. All the rooms face the quadrangle, where the students would tend to hang out and gather in groups.
Some hostels are bigger, with bigger rooms, with a football field too! Probably, the seniors' hostel. There were about 10,000 students.
A familiar picture of your college ? ( This is supposed to be the Kushan architectural style; looks the same as IIT-K ! )
Except that this is more than a thousand years ago. Nalanda was visited by Buddha, that's how old it is. But it was really famous from the 5th to the 12th centuries : will your college last longer ?