ABSTRACT
The Buddha-Karita of Asvaghosha, has been translated by E. B. 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 glorious one, named the great Buddha, proceeded with the mendicants in an auspicious company, entered the city of Kast. The poem about Buddha, very difficult to obtain, was written by Amritananda in the year indicated by a cipher, the arrows, and a nine, in the dark fortnight of the month Margasirsha and on the day ruled by the seventh astrological house Smara. The boatman who conveyed that Gina across the Ganges worshipped him and offered him milk with due services of reverence, and became a mendicant through his favour and by the Gina's command found a dwelling in the Buddha's hermitage in the grove.
