Nishprapanchaya
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Nishprapanchaya is the dative of a Sanskrit noun, niṣprapañca, sometimes translated as "absolute presence".
The dative form occurs in some popular mantra
Mantra
A mantra is a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that is considered capable of "creating transformation"...

s, as following Om Namah Shivaya (plus a string of datives giving qualities of Shiva
Shiva
Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

).

A literal translation of niṣprapañca is "without extension", where niṣ- conveys the negative, and the pra-pañca means "expansion, manifoldness". The term is used in the Bhagavata Purana
Bhagavata purana
The Bhāgavata Purāṇa is one of the "Maha" Puranic texts of Hindu literature, with its primary focus on bhakti to the incarnations of Vishnu, particularly Krishna...

 to convey the idea of the singular God not subject to "manifoldness" in Hindu monotheism.
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