UCC ID: UCCIK-418162

NCC ID: UCCIK-14.21b.5

Name Of The Text: (Buddhacarita)

Name Of The Author: (Aśvaghoṣa)

Total Manuscripts: 11

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Details Of The Text: kāvya on the life of Buddha in 17 sargas; the last four sargas were added by Amṛtānanda. See NCC. I. Revised edn. p. 355a. The avilable text is said to be a torso as the Chinese and Tibetan transls. are stated to contain 28 sargas. See Wint., HIL. II. p. 259. For textual criticism, emendations, parallels etc., see E. Hultzsch, Zu Aśvaghoṣa's Buddhacarita, ZDMG. 72 (1918) 145 ̶ 53.See also Sukumar Sen, IHQ. II. 3 (1926), pp. 657 ̶ 62. For a fr. of few verses in a selection see IO. 7786 (2). Ptd. (1) E. B. Cowell. Anecdota Oxoniensia. Aryan Ser. Vol. I. Oxford, 1893. (2) G. R. Nandargikar. Aryabhushan Press. Poona, 1911. (3) With English transl. E. H. Johnston pt. I. (text). pt. II. (transl. of Cantos I ̶ XIV). Punjab Skt. Ser. 31 and 32. Calcutta, 1936. (4) Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1992.

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