A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.153

v2.c19.s6.t4.153

In this work, which is said to have been translated into Chinese as early as between 178 and 184 A.D.,⁵ the prose and the verses alternate in such a way that the verse portions (in Sanskrit with occasional Prākritisms) repeat what has already been said in prose. As far as we can glean from the fragments which have come down, the ideal of the Bodhisattva, and the doctrine of unreality (śūnyatā) are proclaimed again and again in the Kāśyapa-Parivarta in many a parable in the conversations between Buddha and Kāśyapa.