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Written by the Buddhist poet Aśvaghoṣa, a contemporary of Emperor Kanishka, this mahākāvya (epic poem) narrates the life of the Buddha in verse. Only thirteen cantos of the Sanskrit poem claim to be Asvaghosa's composition; the last four cantos are an attempt by a modern Nepalese author Amṛtānada to supply the loss of the original.
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