Srinagar, June 20 -- Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday said Kashmir was once among Asia's foremost centres of learning, attracting scholars from Afghanistan, Central Asia and other regions, while Sanskrit texts preserved and studied in the Valley were translated into Arabic and carried India's intellectual traditions far beyond its borders.

Addressing the inaugural session of the Nalanda Dialogue-2026 at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) here, LG Sinha said Kashmir and Nalanda shared a deep civilisational bond and served as two of the world's most influential centres of knowledge, shaping philosophical, scientific and cultural discourse across continents.

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