ABSTRACT
The Buddha-Karita of Asvaghosha, has been translated by Edward Byles Cowell from Nepalese texts. Of Indian origin, around the beginning of the Christian era, it is concerned with the life and teachings of the Buddha, now quite far removed from the Pali documents of the Hinayana. The original text, which was fragmentary, has been completed by the addition of four books by a nineteenth-century Nepalese scholar, Amritananda. Mara, whom people call in the world Kamadeva, the owner of the various weapons, the flower-arrowed, the lord of the course of desire. His three sons, confusion, gaiety, and pride, and his three daughters, lust, delight, and thirst.
