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General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_368
The Vāsiṣṭhaparipṛṣṭopoṣadhāvadāna and the Sānumattajadoṣanirṇayā nāma Bhuktāṣṭamīvratapoṣadhāvadāna are chapters from the Kalpadrumāvadāna, a larger compendium of avadā...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_366
An account of the optional fast called Upoṣadha or Poṣadha in the form of a narrative. This avadāna is according to Matsunami, the 29th chapter of the Kalpadrumāvadāna. I...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_204
"The Divyāvadāna is a large compendium of Indian Buddhist narratives written in Sanskrit from the early centuries of the Common Era. The Nagarāvalambikā avadāna (The Stor...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_172
An Avadana text praises the giving of alms-bowls to Buddhist mendicants. The story tells of Sarvānanda, the king of the great city of Dīpavatī, who once visited the renow...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_79
An Avadāna text contains five stories related to the Aśoka-Upagupta chronicles (Mitra, 1882, pp. 292-303). Originally, the text had 26 stories, but this manuscript includ...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_60
This text is the 6th chapter of the Divyāvadāna, which tells the story of a self-obsessed brāhmaṇa named Indra and how he was enlightened by Gautama Buddha. The story als...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_38
This is a vrata text praising the Buddhist goddess Vasundhārā (or Vasudhārā). She is the goddess of both wealth and prosperity, and this text describes the positive impac...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_37
This narrates the story of the birth and life of the Mauryan king Aśoka.