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Scroll of Nilakanthadharani in Sanskrit in late Gupta (Siddham) and Soghdian scripts.
Date
650 to 750
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height 14.5 centimetres, width 129 centimetres
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Scope and content : A dharani in honour of Avalokitesvara as Nilakantha, blue throated, borrowed from Huindu god, Siva. Catalogued in Zwalf 1985: 101. Nilakantha-dharani. ll 29-35: plate 18 in N.Sims-Williams & James Hamilton: Documents turco-sogdiens du ixe-xe siècle de Touen-houang (London: Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, 1990).
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DHMG.
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Ch.0092
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Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
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The digitisation of this manuscript has been made possible thanks to the support of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/).
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