The Vajrayana mahavihara founded by Dharmapala (783 to 820 on that page) on the Ganges hill at Antichak near Kahalgaon, long the second house of Pala Buddhism after Nalanda and a source of Tibetan teachers.
The infobox of English Wikipedia gives its abandonment as the thirteenth century and says the monks fled to Nepal and Tibet, and the page gives its destruction by Bakhtiyar around 1193, an older date than the modern readings of the Bihar raid (1199 to 1200, or 1203). The page also says it was "neglected for years".
Who holds it
- Name
- Sakyasribhadra (on the English Wikipedia list "last abbot of Vikramashila during the late 12th and early 13th century")
- Title
- Abbot of Vikramashila
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
What it holds
- The monastery, the cruciform stupa and the library (board)
Allies and rivals
The Karnatas across the river, the Sena claim on Anga.
How things stand that morning
Standing but neglected; Sakyasribhadra at its head; the Ganges road past it is the way a Turkish column must take to Bengal.
Threats
- The Bihar and Anga raids (1193, 1197 to 1206 by various readings)
Places of note
- Vikramashila: The mahavihara.
Where the sources disagree
- English Wikipedia's date of 1193 conflicts with the modern readings of 1199 to 1200 or 1203 for the Bihar raid; the older date is also at odds with the brief's date rule, so we treat the monastery as standing on 1 January 1200.
- The campaign board entry vikramashila-antichak is "contested".
Evidence: One modern page; the date of the destruction is disputed.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: A small disc for the house and its home villages; the granted villages lay scattered.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.