The name Bihar is gotten from the Sanskrit and Pali word vihara (Devanagari: ?????), signifying “homestead”. The area generally including the present state was specked with Buddhist viharas, the dwelling places Buddhist priests in the old and medieval periods. Medieval author Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani records in the Tabaqat-I Nasiri that in 1198 Bakhtiyar Khalji submitted a slaughter in a town related to the word, later known as Bihar Sharif, around 70 km away from Bodh Gaya   Bihar gyan darshan