In the Indian sub-continent, the story of writing is a bit complicated. Although the Harappans were a literate people, but the oldest deciphered script is Brahmi, known from the Brahmi inscriptions of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka of 4th century B.C. Many original books, commentaries, discussions and translation of Mahayana works into Tibetan language are the scholarly activities which took place during early medieval north India. Many scholars were invited to Tibet and China; similarly a large number of Chinese and Tibetan pilgrims came to India for studying Buddhist scriptures as well as pilgrimage. We also find some names of renounced women who were great scholars and teachers. But both Buddhist and Hindu scholarly activities received serve setback as a result of Turko-Afghan invasions. Hence, a great change in the scholarly activities and in the life of scholars came in with the Turko-Afghan invasions.