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  2. List of historic Indian texts - Wikipedia

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    Commentary and elaboration on vedas and description of religious procedures. 900-500 BCE [ 2] Upanishads. Philosophy in response to Vedas and Brahmanas. There are 108 Upnishads, among which 13 are considered the principal ones. 800-400 BCE [ 2] Vedanta. Later commentary on the Vedas, Brahmanas and Upanishads.

  3. Manusmriti - Wikipedia

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    The Manusmṛti ( Sanskrit: मनुस्मृति ), also known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many legal texts and constitutions among the many Dharmaśāstras of Hinduism. [ 1][ 2] Over fifty manuscripts of the Manusmriti are now known, but the earliest discovered, most translated and presumed authentic ...

  4. Siddhartha (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Siddhartha. (novel) Siddhartha: An Indian novel ( German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German: [ziˈdaʁta] ⓘ) is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple ...

  5. List of literary works by number of translations - Wikipedia

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    2,191 (at least New Testament) 698 (Old and New Testaments, including. the Protocanonical books) [ 1] Hebrew, Aramaic, Koine Greek. 2. The Little Prince. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

  6. Quran translations - Wikipedia

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    One of them was published in 1990, and it is by the first woman to translate the Qur'an into English, Amatul Rahman Omar, together with her husband, Abdul Mannan Omar. [25] In 1991 appeared an English translation under the title: The Clarion Call Of The Eternal Qur-aan, by Muhammad Khalilur Rahman (b. 1906–1988), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was the ...

  7. Baburnama - Wikipedia

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    Baburnama. An awards ceremony in Sultan Ibrahim's court before being sent on an expedition to Sambhal. The Bāburnāma ( Chagatay: وياقع, romanized: Vayaqıʿ, lit. 'The Events'; [ 1] Persian: بابر‌نامه, romanized : Bāburnāma, lit. 'History of Babur') is the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of ...

  8. The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary - Wikipedia

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    The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is an English translation of the Qur'an by the British Indian Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953) during the British Raj.It has become among the most widely known English translations of the Qur'an, due in part to its prodigious use of footnotes, and its distribution and subsidization by Saudi Arabian beneficiaries during the late 20th century.

  9. Palm-leaf manuscript - Wikipedia

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    Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves. Palm leaves were used as writing materials in the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia dating back to the 5th century BCE. [ 1] Their use began in South Asia and spread to other regions, as texts on dried and smoke-treated palm leaves of the Palmyra or talipot palm. [ 2]