File:828 CE Sanskrit Manuscript Page, Gupta Script, Nepal, Pārameśvaratantra (MS Add.1049.1).jpg
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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