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Buddhacarita

Aśvaghoṣa's epic of the Buddha's life, from his birth to his last days.

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The Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, tr. E. B. Cowell
E. B. Cowell, 1894

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The Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, tr. E. B. CowellTranslation · English · E. B. Cowell, 1894

E. B. Cowell's translation (1894) of Aśvaghoṣa's life of the Buddha, read from scans of the printed volume. A few verse numbers the scans did not show are run into the verse before, and some names with diacritics may appear garbled.

Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. · Source ↗

Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East 49 (1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced.

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