English: Source link: Pārameśvaratantra (MS Add.1049.1, University of Cambridge Collections)

Description paraphrased from the source:

This is one of the oldest known dated Sanskrit manuscripts from South Asia. Discovered in Nepal, it was created on a palm leaf and exists as a bundle of written pages. According to the colophon, it was copied in the year 252, which some scholars judge to correspond to 828 CE. The bundle also includes a one-leaf fragment of a Jñānārṇavamahātantra (see Add.1049.2).

The text is Pārameśvaratantra, a scripture of the Saiva Siddhanta tradition of Hinduism.

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