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INDIAN HISTORY

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Who wrote buddhacharita?
A
Buddha
B
Kanishka
C
unvoiced
D
Nagarjuna
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Buddhacarita, also spelled Buddhacharita, in full Buddhacarita-kavya-sutra (Sanskrit: “Poetic Discourse on the Acts of the Buddha”), poetic narrative of the life of the Buddha by the Sanskrit poet Ashvaghosha, one of the finest examples of Buddhist literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Buddhacharita (Sanskrit: , romanized: Buddhacaritam; transl. Acts of the Buddha) is an epic poem in the Sanskrit mahakavya style on the life of Gautama Buddha by Aśvaghoṣa of Sāketa (modern Ayodhya), composed in the early second century CE.

Detailed explanation-3: -Among the works attributed to him are the Mahayana-shraddhotpada-shastra (“The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana”), the Buddhacarita (“The Life of Buddha”), in verse, and the Mahalankara (“Book of Glory”).

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