Aligarh News: There are many things stored in Aligarh Muslim University which show that Aligarh Muslim University has been alive since ancient times. A 2000-year-old rare broken statue of Gautam Buddha is present in the museum of Aligarh Muslim University. It was collected by Aligarh Muslim University. People also donated money for this museum so that this museum can be made even stronger.

Several thousand years old objects and statues are still present in Aligarh Muslim University. Among them, a 2000 years old broken statue of Gautam Buddha is present in Moses Dokari Museum, AMU. Inscriptions, stupas, centuries old utensils found during excavations in the museum also tell their importance. Historical things were collected by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of Aligarh Muslim University. 

The museum has a rare fragmented statue of Gautam Buddha

in a sitting posture of 1-2th century, a Surya of 11-12th century, a life size Buddha statue, a fragmented statue of elephant and Lakshmi of 9-10th century, and a fragmented statue of 9-10th century. All the things related to Jainism and Buddhism were collected by the founder Sir Syed in Aligarh and other places. The university administration has preserved them in the Sir Syed Gallery of Moses Dockery Museum. 

If we talk about the founder of Aligarh Muslim University, then Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was a 19th century Indian Muslim pragmatist, social reformer and philosopher. Whose dream was to attract people towards education. Sir Syed Ahmed was born on 17 October 1817 in the Syed family of Delhi. He died on 28 March 1898 in Aligarh. The world knows the educational services of Sir Syed. 

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of AMU who ignited the light in the field of education, had worked in the field of archaeology before joining education. In 1847, Sir Syed wrote a book on the historical buildings of Delhi named Aasar-us-Sanadid which is an important and historical book. There are many such books which call the founder of AMU as the light of education.

'Described as the great capital of Indian history'

Professor Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi of the AMU Historical Department said that AMU founder Sir Syed Ahmed Khan had saved the great capital of Indian history by taking the AMU's Musa Dakri Museum and the statue of Gautam Buddha. In the Musa Dakri Museum, a large pillar of Jainism, a rare statue of Buddha, sermons, everything related to Jainism and Buddhism that Sir Syed found in Aligarh and other places is kept in the Sir Syed Gallery of the Musa Dakri Museum.

It is said that a lot of people have contributed to promote such a museum. A US-based well-wisher of AMU, Musa Dakri, donated 50 thousand US dollars to the university. Musa Dakri is from Gujarat, India and now lives in the US. He visited Aligarh Muslim University in January 2014. At that time, AMU Vice Chancellor Lieutenant General (Retired) Zameer Uddin Shah thanked him for his philanthropic donation.