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English: This is an image of the frontispiece of "Satya Sakshi Parmeshvarya Mahima", a treatise on monotheism composed in Newari in 1740 for King Ranajit Malla of Bhaktapur. It was written by Padre Vito da Recanati, a Catholic Capuchin missionary, with the assistance of his Newari language teacher in Bhaktapur, Brahman Balagovinda.
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Original publication: Published in Bhaktapur, Nepal, in March 1740, under the title "Satya Sakshi Parmesvarya Mahima".

Immediate source: This reproduction of the frontispiece was found in: Alsop, Ian. 1996. “Christians at the Malla Court: the Capuchin ‘piccolo libro’.” In "Change and continuity: studies in the Nepalese culture of the Kathmandu Valley", edited by Siegfried Lienhard. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso. P. 135. The original manuscript is held in the Kaiser Library, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Padre Vito da Recanati

(Life time: Died 1747.)
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This was published in Nepal in 1740, and the the author died more than 250 years ago.


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