[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.s6.t3.156 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t3.156 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t3.156 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s6.t3.156](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.156) The Divyāvadāna ("The Heavenly Avadānas"),² is a later collection than the Avadāna-Śataka, but it also includes some very old texts. Though it begins with the Mahāyānistic benediction "Om, honour to all the exalted Buddhas and Bodhisattvas," and contains just a few obviously later additions in the spirit of the Mahāyāna,³ as a whole it decidedly belongs to the Hīnayāna school. The Sanskrit Canon and single canonical texts such as Dīrghāgama, Udāna, Sthavira-Gāthā, and so on, are frequently quoted.⁴ Some narratives begin and end exactly as in the Avadāna-Śataka, and a number of the stereotyped phrases and descriptions so characteristic of this book, also recur literally in the Divyāvadāna. They are probably derived from the Vinayapiṭaka of the Mūla- Sarvāstivāda school, from which, as S. Lévi¹ has shown, more than one-half of the stories is borrowed. - [Previous: v2.c19.s6.t3.155](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.155) - [Next: v2.c19.s6.t3.157](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.157) - [Up: v2.c19.s6.t3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3) ## Cites (5) - [Divyāvadāna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.avadanasamgraha.divyavadana) — Sanskrit - [Udāna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.udana) — Pāli - [Vinayapiṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.vp) — Pāli - [Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.vinaya.mulasarvastivada) — Sanskrit - [Dīrghāgama (Dharmaguptaka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.dirghagama) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.156](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.156) · Pramāṇa