[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.t3.15 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t3.15 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t3.15 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s6.t3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.15) \[^1): E. Kuhn (Gurupūjākaumudī, p. 116 ff.) has proved that these two legends of the little Buddha served as models for the apocryphal gospels, which relate similar stories of the little Jesus. \[^2): For this, cf. Winternitz, WZKM 26, 1912, p. 237 ff. \[^3): Here too, however, the Lalita-Vistara frequently distinguishes itself by its exaggerations. Whilst in our oldest record (Mahā-Vagga I, 1-4), for instance, Gotama spends the four weeks after his enlightenment, in meditation under various trees, in the Lalita-Vistara (ed. Lefmann, p. 377) he takes a "long walk" in the second week through thousands of worlds, and in the fourth week a "short walk," which extends only from the Eastern to the Western ocean. - [Previous: v2.c19.s6.t3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.14) - [Next: v2.c19.s6.t3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.16) - [Up: v2.c19.s6.t3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3) ## Cites (2) - [Mahāvagga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.vp.khandhaka.mahavagga.1.1) — Pāli - [Lalitavistarā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.sveta.mula.3.lalitavistara) — Haribhadra Sūri, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.15) · Pramāṇa