Buddhacharita is an epic poem in the Sanskrit mahakavya style on the life of Gautama Buddha.
He was the most famous in a group of Buddhist court writers, whose epics rivaled the contemporary Ramayana..
He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet prior to Kalidasa.
Asvaghosa was an Indian philosopher-poet, born in Saketa in northern India to a Brahmin family.
Buddhacharita is an epic poem in the Sanskrit mahakavya style on the life of Gautama Buddha