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{{Short description|Ancient university at Lohana}}
{{Infobox ancient site|name=University of ancient Lohana|native_name=लोहना विश्वविद्यालय|native_name_lang=Mai|region=[[Mithila region]]|part_of=Ancient universities in Indian Subcontinent|location=[[Lohna, Bihar|Lohana village]], [[Madhubani district]], [[Bihar]], [[India]]}}
The '''University''' '''of ancient Lohana''' was a learning centre of [[Sanskrit]] education in the [[Mithila (region)|Mithila region]] of the [[Indian subcontinent]]. It was located at the ''[[Lohna, Bihar|Lohana]]'' village in the [[Madhubani district]] of [[Bihar]]. It was destroyed during the [[British Raj|British rule]] in [[India]]. The ruins of the ancient university still exist in the village of Lohana. There is a small railway station known as ''Lohana Road Station'' near the site of the ruins. Presently there is a Sanskrit College on the site of the ruins which was built and patronised by the king of [[Raj Darbhanga]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=शर्म्मा |first=रामप्रकाश |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7sBAAAAMAAJ |title=मिथिला का इतिहास |date=1979 |publisher=Kāmeśvarasiṃhadarabhaṅgāsaṃskr̥taviśvavidyālaya |language=hi}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Śrīvāstava |first=Lakshmī Prasāda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MpEhAAAAMAAJ |title=Bihāra loka saṃskrti kośa: Mithilā khanḍạ |date=1990 |publisher=Sītārāma Prakāśana |language=hi}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Khanam |first=Akhter Jahan |date=2017 |title=Prachin Mithila ka vaidik dharma mein yogdaan ek vishleshanatmak adhyayan |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/226317 |journal=INFLIBNET |language=Hindi |pages=53, 54|hdl=10603/226317 }}</ref>

== History ==
According to the historians, [[Mithila (region)|Mithila]] was ruled by [[Hindus|Hindu]] rulers during the period [[Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent|Muslim rule]] in the northern part of India. During this period, the village of [[Lohna, Bihar|Lohana]] emerged as a prominent center of Sanskrit education in the patronages of the [[Brahmin|Brahmins]] kings of Mithila. It is said{{by whom|date=February 2025}} that when the universities of [[Nalanda mahavihara|Nalanda]] and [[Vikramashila|Vikramshila]] were destroyed by the Muslim invaders, then the village of Lohana became the shelter for the Sanskrit scholars who fled from Nalanda and Vikramshila. After that the learning centre of the Lohana village took the form of a university. The Sanskrit scholars from different parts of the Indian subcontinent flocked to the university of Lohana for learning Sanskrit education.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

After the arrival of [[British Raj|British rule]] in the sub-continent, when the British rulers took control on the [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal presidency]], then they felt the university of Lohana as an obstacle for expansion of the western culture and the British rule in the [[Mithila (region)|region of Mithila]]. So the British rulers destroyed the university of Lohana and converted it into ruins. Later the university of Lohana gradually disappeared.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

== References ==
<references />{{India-hist-stub}}

[[Category:Ancient universities of the Indian subcontinent]]
[[Category:Education in India]]
[[Category:Madhubani district]]
[[Category:Mithila (region)]]

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