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Question
Answer the following question briefly:
How do we know that education was encouraged during the Gupta period?
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Solution
The Guptas encouraged education and learning. Liberal grants were given to educational institutions. Their greatest contribution was the establishment of the Nalanda University, which became very famous during the reign of Harsha in the 7th century CE.
Nalanda University was a center of Buddhist learning. Medicine, astronomy, grammar, philosophy and Vedic literature were some of the other subjects taught at this university.
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