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    much of Buddhist literature prior to the time of Aśvaghoṣa had been composed in Pāli and Prakrit, Aśvaghoṣa wrote in Classical Sanskrit. He may have been...
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    Amarabharati Prakashan, 1985. Scan at Archive.org. Aśvaghoṣa, and Sujitkumar Mukhopadhyaya. The vajrasūchi of Asvaghosa: Sanskrit Text. Santiniketan: Sino-Indian...
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    principal disciples Shaolin Monastery Major figures Gautama Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga...
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    Aśvaghoṣa is an impact crater on Mercury, 90 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 10.4°, 21°W, south of the crater Abu Nuwas and southwest of the...
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    principal disciples Shaolin Monastery Major figures Gautama Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga...
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    poem in the Sanskrit mahakavya style on the life of Gautama Buddha by Aśvaghoṣa of Sāketa (modern Ayodhya), composed in the early second century CE. The...
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    principal disciples Shaolin Monastery Major figures Gautama Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga...
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  • uncertain: he likely lived after Aśvaghoṣa (1st-2nd century CE) as a verse in his Pratijna-yaugandharayana is probably from Aśvaghoṣa's Buddha-charita. He definitely...
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    Al-Qays Andal Aneirin Angelou Anguissola Anyte Apollodorus Aristoxenes Aśvaghoṣa Atget Bach Balagtas Balanchine Baranauskas Balzac Bartók Barma Bashō Beckett...
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    Aśvaghoṣa and his School Archived 10 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine Yoshichika Honda. 'Indian Buddhism and the kāvya literature: Asvaghosa's Saundaranandakavya...
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  • and the Sarvastivada Buddhist monk and author Aśvaghoṣa (c. 80-c. 150 CE). The Sanskrit name Aśvaghoṣa derives from áśva (अश्व, "horse") and ghoṣa (घोष...
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    Though traditionally attributed to the 2nd century CE Indian master Aśvaghoṣa, no Sanskrit version is extant and it is widely regarded by many contemporary...
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    Buddhacarita is the earliest full biography, an epic poem written by the poet Aśvaghoṣa in the first century CE. The Lalitavistara Sūtra is the next oldest biography...
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    (about 100000 verses).[citation needed] The Buddhist poet and philosopher Aśvaghoṣa (c. 80 – c. 150 CE) is one of the earliest Sanskrit poets with surviving...
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    Recognition of Shakuntala), Śudraka (famous for The Little Clay Cart), Asvaghosa, Daṇḍin, and Emperor Harsha (famous for Nagananda, Ratnavali, and Priyadarsika)...
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  • ed. 1998. ISBN 978-81-208-1279-6 E.H. Johnston, ed. and Aśvaghoṣa. "Saundarananda of Aśvaghoṣa". Oxford University Press: London, 1928. E.H. Johnston,...
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  • work. Kāvya can refer to the style or the completed body of literature. Aśvaghoṣa (c. 80–150 AD), a philosopher and poet considered the father of Sanskrit...
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  • principal disciples Shaolin Monastery Major figures Gautama Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga...
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  • principal disciples Shaolin Monastery Major figures Gautama Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga...
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    principal disciples Shaolin Monastery Major figures Gautama Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga...
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  • doctrines. His ideas are also mentioned in Buddhist texts attributed to Aśvaghoṣa of the same period. In Jainism literature, he is referred as Sad-uluka...
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    Urbe Condita) Sanskrit: Śabara: Śābara-bhāṣyam Gunadhara:Kasayapahuda Aśvaghoṣa:Buddhacharita (Acts of the Buddha), Saundarananda, Sutralankara Chinese:...
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    that mindfulness is the principal asset of a bodhisattva, while both Asvaghosa and Shantideva state that without mindfulness, a bodhisattva will be helpless...
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    texts such as Kalapa, Katantra and Candra-vyakarana adapting Panini, and Asvaghosa adopting the more ancient Sanskrit poetic methodology as he praises the...
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    Mahabharata as evidenced by exact quotes of it in the Buddhist literature by Asvaghosa (c. 100 CE), Upadhyaya states that the Mahabharata, and therefore the...
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    principal disciples Shaolin Monastery Major figures Gautama Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga...
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    biographies is the Buddhacarita, an epic poem in Classical Sanskrit by Aśvaghoṣa. Aśvaghoṣa also wrote other poems, as well as Sanskrit dramas. Another Sanskrit...
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