Divyāvadāna

The Divyāvadāna is a collection of avadāna stories compiled between the 3rd and 4th centuries, and is one of the largest and earliest sources of Indian Buddhist narrative literature. The narratives it contains are set during the time of the Buddha’s stay in Śrāvastī, in the garden of Anāthapiṇḍada. This manuscript includes 25 stories, beginning with the Śroṇakoṭikarṇāvadāna (fols. 1b–16a) and ending with the Jyotiṣkāvadāna (fols. 328a–351b), along with a Dānādhikāra-Mahāyānasūtra included at fol. 294b. Matsunami notes: “Fol. 16 missing. 2 leaves with fol. no. 294.” (Matsunami, 1965, p. 70).