Question

The chinese Hiuen Tsang stayed in the university of -------- ?
A) Taxila
B) Vikramashila
C) Kashi
D) Nalanda

Answer 1

Hint:
The great chinese traveller came in the reign of king harsh. He was staying at Nalanda university whose main aim was access and collect knowledge of buddhism religion. He has described social and cultural aspects of India in his book Western countries records.

Complete step by step solution:
Hiuen Tsang came to India during the harsha empire. Through him we can understand the political cultural aspects of that period of time. He was described mainly about buddhism religion and the empire of harsha. He stayed in Nalanda university for the last five years. He was so famous in his era that harsha chose him as the president of the religious general assembly.

Hiuen Tsang described the urban life of india. He described Kannauj as a beautiful city in India of that era. He told that nalanda and vallabha were important centers of bhuddish education. He believed that lovers of education, literature and fine arts in India are very much. Education in India was mainly based on religion which was taught orally.

Hiuen Tsung described the status of indian society. He wrote that the caste system was not an introduction to the cut curtain but women were educated. Although sati practice was prevalent. The people there are simple and honest.

So option D is the correct answer.

Note:
Hiuen Tsang plays an important role in ancient history. His discovery is one of the precious discoveries of indian cities, society and culture. He was the most famous traveller of that time. Due to his discovery we get information about Indian ancient city society.