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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

An English translation of this famous life of the Buddha, one of the great pieces of Sanskrit literature, with additions to help complete the text.

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<strong>Buddha</strong>-<strong>carita</strong>, <strong>or</strong> <strong>Life</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Buddha</strong> - 171<br />

conquered all the power <strong>of</strong> darkness, the heavens shone out with the<br />

moon like a maiden with a smile, and a sweet-smelling shower <strong>of</strong><br />

flowers fell down wet with dew.<br />

73. When the wicked one thus fled vanquished, the different regions<br />

<strong>of</strong> the sky grew clear, the moon shone f<strong>or</strong>th, showers <strong>of</strong> flowers fell<br />

down from the sky upon the earth, and the night gleamed out like a<br />

spotless maiden.<br />

[Such is the thirteenth chapter in the great poem Śri <strong>Buddha</strong><strong>carita</strong>,<br />

written <strong>by</strong> Aśvaghosa, called Defeat <strong>of</strong> Māra]

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