Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c31.23

c31.23

¹ I-tsing also mentions two other recently composed works which were also widely used. The first was the story of the Bodhisattva Jīmūtavāhana versified by King Śīlāditya, who popularized it by having it sung with dancing and acting, and the second was a poetical song about the Visvāntara-Jātaka composed by a learned man in Eastern India, Chandradāsa by name (p. 164).