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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> - 231<br />

n<strong>or</strong>thern region with Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva as mendicants in his<br />

train.<br />

31. The gl<strong>or</strong>y <strong>of</strong> the Avadāna <strong>of</strong> the birth <strong>of</strong> the lion <strong>of</strong> the Śākyas<br />

has thus been described <strong>by</strong> me at length and yet very concisely; it<br />

must be c<strong>or</strong>rected <strong>by</strong> paṇḍits wherever anything is omitted, – my<br />

childish speech is not to be laughed at, but to be listened to with<br />

pleasure.<br />

Whatever virtue may have been acquired from describing<br />

the king <strong>of</strong> the Law, the deliverer from mundane<br />

existence, who assumes all f<strong>or</strong>ms, – may it become a st<strong>or</strong>e<br />

<strong>of</strong> merit f<strong>or</strong> the production <strong>of</strong> right activity and inactivity<br />

in others, and f<strong>or</strong> the diffusion <strong>of</strong> delight among the six<br />

<strong>or</strong>ders <strong>of</strong> beings.<br />

Thus ends the seventeenth sarga, called the Progress to Lumbinī,<br />

in the great poem made <strong>by</strong> <strong>Aśvaghoṣa</strong>, the <strong>Buddha</strong>-<strong>carita</strong>.

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