The Glorious Deeds of Purna Motilal Banarsidass It has particularly endeared itself

It has particularly endeared itself to the moderately educated masses for whom it epitomizes all that Hinduism means and stands for

epistemology and above all to the philosophy of pragmatic active life affirming continuity of cultural tradition remains important for the intellectual pursuits in the world of knowledge and culture

Sometimes I could hear the tigers from my cottage when they would come by to drink water and they would roar

recent years have seen increasing academic concern with this textual corpus

The Glorious Deeds of Purna Motilal Banarsidass It has particularly endeared itselfThe avadana literature is the largest corpus of Sanskrit Buddhist texts available to us. By providing an annotated translation of, and applying the methods of literary criticism to, a first century account of the life of the saint Purna, the present study introduces the reader to the richness and complexity of a genre which has played an essential role in Buddhist self understanding for over two thousand years. Buddhist tradition identifies the monk