Buddhist epics in India

Ashok Aklujkar aklujkar at UNIXG.UBC.CA
Tue Nov 16 02:22:53 UTC 1999


[Earlier this message went under the misleading subject heading "oDDiyAna."
I am using the opportunity offered by resending to include one more detail]

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)? Or ;Siva-svaamin's Kapphi.naabhyudaya?

-- aklujkar





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