Excerpt from Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism: From Winternitz, Sylvain Levi, Huber Ashvaghosha and his school; Life of Ashvaghosha; Ashvaghosha's great work: the Buddha's biography; Buddhacarita and Kalidasa; Statecraft, erotic art and warfare; Love and religion; Synthesis of Schools; Sutralankara; Vajrasuci; polemic against caste; Other works of Ashvaghosha; Matriceta; Buddhist poet Shura; Master's selfless love Chapter VI. Literature of Avadanas; Veneration for the Buddha; What is Avadana?; The fixed model; Culture evidences; Maiden disciple: Story 28; Extreme Compassion: Story 34; Disinterested pity: Story 36; Princess devout: Story 54; Guerdon of service to Buddha: Story 100; Avadanashataka and cognate tales; Tibetan and Chinese analogies; Characteristics; Analysis of components; Shardulakarna: love of the untouchable; Ashokavadana; Kunala: Queen mother and step son; Pali parallels; Rupavati's sacrifice About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.