The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word UPANISHAD
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More clues leading to the result UPANISHAD
- A page turned in a Hindu's curious sacred text
- Universal god is deceived in sacred book
- Unpaid, has translated Sanskrit treatise
- Hindu asap working out his sacred text
- University gets deceived with pastoral god in religious text
- Pain had us turning to a sacred text
- Above article is taken in a philosophical text
- One of many works construed as Hindu philosophy's primer — ultimate in Vedanta
- One of many works construed as Hindu philosophy’s primer — ultimate in Vedanta
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