A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.189

v2.c19.s5.189

The Jinacarita¹ by the poet Vanaratana Medhaṃkara,² who lived in the reign of Bhuvanaka Bāhu I (1277-1288 A.D.), is a very mediocre poem on the life of the Buddha, in simple and natural, but not particularly beautiful, language. It looks almost like a somewhat clumsy versification of the Nidāna-Kathā. The Mālālaṃkāra-Vatthu, a Buddha biography written at an even later time (1773), has only become known through the English translation³ of a Burmese translation from the Pāli.