Kārtikāvratakathā

A Buddhist ritual text discusses the merits of the caityavrata, ahorātravrata, and Kārtikāvrata. This text is written in the kathā (storytelling) style. The story goes that, during a Buddhist council in Jetavana, a discussion was taking place on caityavrata. Subhūti asked the Buddha to describe the merits of ahorātravrata. In response, the Buddha tells a story in which the great scholar Vasubandhu describes the merits of caityavrata, ahorātravrata, and Kārtikāvrata to the king of Indrapṛṣṭa, who ruled over Pūrvavideha before it was called Gandhavatipūrī. In this manuscript, the discussions on ahorātravrata and caityavrata start on folio 1b and end on folio 7a, while Kārtikāvrata starts on folio 7b and ends on 13b.