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Webster 1913 Edition


Nirvana

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Nir-va′na

,
Noun.
[Skr.
nirvāṇa
.]
In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See
Buddhism
.