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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> - 230<br />

28. Having declared the gl<strong>or</strong>y <strong>of</strong> the Law <strong>of</strong> <strong>Buddha</strong>, he built a round<br />

Stupa and gave a royal c<strong>or</strong>onation to Saunu, sending him into the<br />

wood pre-eminent with the holiest saints and Caityas, and bidding him<br />

w<strong>or</strong>ship the sacred relics; and having commanded Rāhula, Gautamī,<br />

and the other women led <strong>by</strong> Gopikā, with staves in their hands, as<br />

shaven ascetics, to practise the vow <strong>of</strong> fasting called ah<strong>or</strong>atra, and<br />

after that the Lakṣacaitya ceremony and then the rite called<br />

29. The Aṣṭasāhasrikā <strong>of</strong> sacred auth<strong>or</strong>ity, the Geya and the Gāthā,<br />

the Nidāna and the Avadāna, and that which is called the Sūtra <strong>of</strong> the<br />

great Yāna, the Vyākara and the Ityukta, the Jātaka, the w<strong>or</strong>k called<br />

Vaipulya, the Adbhuta and the Upadeśa, and also the Udānaka as the<br />

twelfth. – Teaching (these sacred texts) and making current the Yāna<br />

f<strong>or</strong> common disciples, that f<strong>or</strong> Pratyeka <strong>Buddha</strong>s, and the Mahāyāna,<br />

and proclaiming them all around, accompanied <strong>by</strong> thirteen and a half<br />

bodies <strong>of</strong> mendicants, the conquer<strong>or</strong> <strong>of</strong> the w<strong>or</strong>ld went out <strong>of</strong> the city<br />

<strong>of</strong> Kapila.<br />

30. After displaying miracles in the city <strong>of</strong> Kapila, and having paid<br />

honour to his father, and having made Rāhula and his companions<br />

Arhats, and also the Bhikṣuṇis with Gautamī and Gopikā at their<br />

head, and various women <strong>of</strong> all the four castes; and having established<br />

Saunu on his imperial throne, and the people in the Jina doctrine, and<br />

having abolished poverty and darkness, and then remembering his<br />

mother, he set f<strong>or</strong>th, ever w<strong>or</strong>shipping Svayambhū, towards the

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