N. Ganesan wrote: >Tamil possesses the only buddhist epic that survived in India - maNimEkalai...< What about A;sva-gho.sa's Buddha-carita and Saundarananda? Or the Padya-cuu.daa-ma.ni (or Siddhaartha-carita) ascribable to Buddha-gho.sa (Madras 1921)? -- aklujkar