Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha by Asvaghosa (Record no. 1375)
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| fixed length control field | nam a22 7a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9788120812796 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 294.363 As96 B |
| Item number | 101511 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Asvaghosas |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha by Asvaghosa |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication | Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Motilal Banarsidass Publishers |
| Date of publication | 2015 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 232 130 161 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | The Buddhacarita is the most famous work of Asvaghosa, the well-known Buddhist poet-philosopher supposed to have been a contemporary of King Kaniska of the early 2nd century A.D., of the twenty-eight cantos of the epic poem a little less than half is now available in the original, but complete translations in Chinese and Tibetan have been preserved. This edition consists of three parts. The first part contains the Sanskrit text and the second the translation of the first fourteen cantos, filling up the lacunae in the Sanskrit from the Tibetan, together with an introduction dealing with various aspects of the poet's works, with notes which discuss the many difficulties of text and translation and an Index. The third part contains translation of Cantos XV-XXVIII based on the available Tibetan and Chinese versions so as to arrive as near the meaning of Asvaghosa's original text. The poem falls into four distinct quarters of seven cantos describing birth and youth of the hero, enlightenment after long questing, how the Buddha made his discovery by teaching available to all beings, a mission ending with a universal conquest in which the hero converts the rulers and people in many countries to the new doctrine and the events leading up to the Parinirvana of the Buddha. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Gautama Buddha |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Buddhists |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | India |
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| Koha item type | Books |
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| Ubhayabharati | Ubhayabharati | General Stacks | 06/01/2018 | 294.363 As96 B 101511 | 101511 | 06/01/2018 | Books |