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Dr. R. C. Prasad Singh, later, in 1960, also rejected the identification of Sultanganj as improper and identified Antichak village, not very far from Patharghata and seen to be surrounded by ruins of brick structures from three sides, i.e. east, south and west, with the ancient bed of the Ganga to its north in east-west direction, the seat of the University. The proposal of Antichak initially seemed suspicious since descriptions of its location on the top of a hillock on the right bank of the Ganga in Magadha, were found difficult to correlate. However, Dr. Singh perhaps rightly explained that such past descriptions could be appreciated at the site seen to be enclosed by two hills named as Garbardhan on the south and Patharghata on the west, which were on the right banks of the Ganga and exhibited foundation walls. Furthermore, since the land lying between these hills was covered with mounds of brick structures and tank depressions, he suggested that the whole area from Lallapur in the east and Patharghata in the west, Antichak in the north and Garbardhan hill in the south formed the University township with its colleges being located at some distance to each other. Field excavations commenced soon thereafter at Antichak, resulting in what we presently witness as the ‘excavated remains of Vikramshila’.
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