Nandi

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English Phonetics Nandi
Sort Name Nandi


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Ku Nân-ti, i.e. Nandi, whose name is translated 喜 Hhi, lit. 'joy.' He was a Grihapati (householder) of the western region, who in A.D. 419 and the following years translated 3 works, one of them was lost already in A.D. 730.

Two of the text attributed to him include the Dàchéng fāngbiàn huì jīng (Upāyakauśalyasūtra) and the Ch'ing kuan shih yin p'u sa hsiao fu tu hai t'o lo ni chou ching or Saḍakṣaravidyāmantra(sūtra).

[He was] of the Eastern Tsin dynasty , A.D. 317–420. ([http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~wittern/data/nanjio-catalog.pdf Source Accessed Sep 8, 2021; see esp. number 47)

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