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Aśvaghoṣa
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', also transliterated Ashvaghosha' (, ; lit. "Horse-Cry"; ; ) ( CE), was a Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet, musician, and orator from India. He was born in Saketa, today known as Ayodhya.
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Aśvaghoṣa was a male poet and writer who lived from 0080-01-01 to 0150-01-01. He is described in the Literary Encyclopedia 1929—1939. His notable work is the Buddhacarita. He practiced Buddhism and wrote in Sanskrit.
His floruit is listed as 100. He is also known for works such as Mahākāp Saonatharanantha khō̜ng ʻAtsawakhōt, 물리학과대승기신론, Mahākāp phutthačharit, Nairātmyaparipṛcchā, and 大乘起信論講讀.
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- Mahākāp Saonatharanantha khō̜ng ʻAtsawakhōt
- 물리학과대승기신론
- Mahākāp phutthačharit
- Nairātmyaparipṛcchā
- 大乘起信論講讀
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- Writer.caption
- Aśvaghoṣa as a Mahayana patriarch
- Writer.occupation
- Poet, dramatist, philosopher
- Writer.language
- Sanskrit
- Writer.genre
- Sanskrit drama, epic poetry, kāvya
- Writer.subject
- Sarvāstivāda or Mahāsāṃghika Buddhism
- Writer.notableworks
- Buddhacharita, Saundarananda, Sutralankara
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Sanskrit
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Notable work
- Buddhacarita
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- Ashvaghosha.jpg
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- date of birth
- 0080-01-01
- date of death
- 0150-01-01
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- Ashvaghosha
- writing language
- Sanskrit
- floruit
- 0100-00-00
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', also transliterated Ashvaghosha' (, ; lit. "Horse-Cry"; ; ) ( CE), was a Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet, musician, and orator from India. He was born in Saketa, today known as Ayodhya.
He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet prior to Kālidāsa. It seems probable that he was the contemporary and spiritual adviser of Kanishka in the first century of our era. He was the most famous in a group of Buddhist court writers, whose epics rivaled the contemporary Ramayana. Whereas much of Buddhist literature prior to the time of Aśvaghoṣa had been composed in Pāli and Prakrit, Aśvaghoṣa wrote in Classical Sanskrit. He may have been associated with the Sarvāstivāda or the Mahasanghika schools.
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