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A sample page from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Genesis 1,1-16a).. The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, abbreviated as BHS or rarely BH 4, is an edition of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible as preserved in the Leningrad Codex, and supplemented by masoretic and text-critical notes.
Various recessions of the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra and other texts give an account of the Buddha being approached by a minister to the Mallas named Putkasa (Pali: Pukkusa) who told him about his teacher Alara Kalama's skill in meditation.
The text is the fourth Veda, and is a late addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. [4] [5] [6] The language of the Atharvaveda is different from Rigvedic Sanskrit, preserving pre-Vedic Indo-European archaisms. [7] [6] It is a collection of 730 hymns with about 6,000 mantras, divided into 20 books. [6]
Kalima (from Arabic: كلمة, kalimah, "word") may refer to: The Six Kalimas, texts to memorize to learn the fundamentals of Islam; Kalima (band), a Manchester jazz-funk band on Factory Records Kalima!, the second album by Kalima; Kalima, a Moroccan magazine "Kalima", a track by Elvin Jones on his 1978 album Remembrance
Manuscripts differ on what its exact title is. Usual variants are Abhijñānaśakuntalā, Abhijñānaśākuntala, Abhijñānaśakuntalam and Abhijñānaśākuntalam. [7] The Sanskrit title means pertaining to the recognition of Śakuntalā, so a literal translation could be Of Śakuntalā who is recognized.
Kālidāsa (Sanskrit: कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His plays and poetry are primarily based on Hindu Puranas and philosophy.
Shristhikantha Lokeśvara, 18th century painting in Nepal. Sahasrabhuja Lokeśvara on the facade of the Janabahā temple, Keltole, Kathmandu. Alexander Studholme writes that the Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra presents the great bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Lokeśvara) as a kind of supreme lord of the cosmos and as the progenitor of various heavenly bodies and divinities (such as the Sun and Moon ...
Maximus the Greek produced an abridged Slavonic translation. [38] The Fourth Book of Maccabees is not in the Vulgate and so is absent from the Apocrypha of the Roman Bible as well as from Protestant Bibles. [35] Erasmus published at Cologne in 1517, [39] expanded in 1524, a very free Latin paraphrase of 4 Maccabees, possibly based on the Passio ...