[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s5.189 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.189 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.189 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s5.189](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.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. - [Previous: v2.c19.s5.188](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.188) - [Next: v2.c19.s5.190](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.190) - [Up: v2.c19.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5) ## Cites (1) - [Jinacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.kavya.jinacarita) — Medhaṅkara (Jinacarita), Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.189](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.189) · Pramāṇa