A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t3.201

v2.c19.s6.t3.201

All these works are so far accessible only in a few manuscripts. Others are known only through the Tibetan and Chinese translations.⁴ Not only books of Avadānas, but many single Avadānas of considerable length, however, have come down in manuscripts as well as in Chinese and Tibetan translations. An instance is the Sumāgadhāvadāna, the legends of Sumāgadhā, the daughter of the merchant Anāthapiṇḍada, who alienates her husband from the Jain monks, and, by a miracle, converts the whole town to the religion of the Buddha. In a former existence she had been the daughter of King Kṛkin, famous for his ten marvellous dreams.¹