1. The Buddhist and Jain religious texts were initially composed in __________
2. ______________ the biography of Harshvardhana by Banabhatta
is another masterpiece in history.
3. A number of stupas were constructed during the time of ____________
4. ___________ was a famous astronomer and scientist of the
ancient period.
Answers
1.The first Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by Buddhist monastics, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo-Aryan languages (such as Pali, Gāndhārī and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit) and collected into various Buddhist canons. These were then translated into other languages such as Buddhist Chinese (fójiào hànyǔ 佛教漢語) and Classical Tibetan as Buddhism spread outside of India.
2.
Harshacharita. The Harshacharita (Sanskrit: हर्षचरित, Harṣacarita) (The deeds of Harsha), is the biography of Indian emperor Harsha by Banabhatta, also known as Bana, who was a Sanskrit writer of seventh-century CE India. He was the Asthana Kavi, meaning Court Poet, of Harsha
3.Origin of the Stupa in the Buddhist Tradition
Buddhist sources claim that during the 3rd century BCE, the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka the Great ordered these eight stupas to be opened, further distributed the relics of the Buddha into 84,000 portions, and had stupas built over them all over the expanding Buddhist world.
4.Claudius Ptolemy
Answer:
1. Vyasa .
2. Harshacharita