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Historians say
The library, called Dharmaganja — the Mountain of Truth — in three buildings, each multiple storeys tall. One source reports it BURNED FOR THREE MONTHS when Bakhtiyar Khilji's army destroyed Nalanda, and calls the loss one of the greatest in human history.