The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.41
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.41
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c11.s1.41
When we had arrived at this point in our hypothesis, the reading of the *Bodhisattvâvadânakalpalatâ* came to confirm it in a most unexpected manner. The abridged and colourless version of the Pâli *Jâtaka* no. 258 had been of no assistance whatever. Neither had we been helped by the Tibetan text of the *Kanjur* in the translation of Schiefner, which, in fact, follows with great fidelity the *Divyâvadâna*, that is the version of the Mûla-Sarvâstivâdins. Kshemendra does the same, but for once, in the midst of his insipid *concetti*, he has, at the beginning, preserved for us one topical detail (st. 8-10):
Linked texts (3)
- Jātaka — Pāli
- Divyāvadāna — Sanskrit
- Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā — Kṣemendra, Sanskrit