What was lost?
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Religious manuscripts, Grammar, Logic, Literature, Astrology, Astronomy, zoology, botany, medicine and much more – the 64 arts and sciences of Hindu civilisation. The Nalanda library had a classification scheme which was based on a text classification scheme developed by the Sanskrit linguist, Panini. Buddhist texts were most likely divided into three classes based on the Tripitaka’s three main divisions: the Vinaya, Sutra, and the Abhidhamma.
What was destroyed included, extensive research and development documents in the fields of astronomy, mathematics, consciousness, arts, architecture, construction, civil engineering and medicine.