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'The Three Hundred Poems of Moral Values') refers to three Indian collections of Sanskrit poetry, containing a hundred verses each. The three śataka's are known as the Nītiśataka , Śṛṅgāraśataka , and Vairāgyaśataka , and are attributed to Bhartṛhari c. 5th century CE.
Avadāna (Sanskrit; Pali: Apadāna) [1] is the name given to a type of Buddhist literature correlating past lives' virtuous deeds to subsequent lives' events.. Richard Salomon described them as "stories, usually narrated by the Buddha, that illustrate the workings of karma by revealing the acts of a particular individual in a previous life and the results of those actions in his or her present ...
A shataka (Sanskrit: शतकम्, romanized: śatakam) is a genre of Sanskrit literature. [1] It comprises works that contain one hundred verses. [2] [3] It is also a popular genre of Telugu literature. [4]
The first verse states that the text is for ascetics who had renounced ordinary life to attain liberation. [1] The text explains how to control the breath in pranayama, [3] using novel techniques such as sūryabhedana, "the piercing of the sun". [1] It teaches śakticālanīmudrā ("stimulating Sarasvatī") along with the three bandhas. [4] "
Classical Sanskrit literature is more varied and includes the following genres: scripture (Hindu, Buddhist and Jain), epics, court poetry , lyric, drama, romance, fairytale, fables, grammar, civil and religious law , the science of politics and practical life, the science of love and sexual intercourse , philosophy, medicine, astronomy ...
The Avadānaśataka (A Hundred Tales) is a Buddhist anthology in Sanskrit of one hundred Buddhist avadāna legends associated with the Mūlasarvāstivāda school. [1] [2] The Sanskrit text's composition date is uncertain, with an approximate origin around 100 CE or later, between the second and fourth centuries CE. [2] [3]
There are various sources available for information on early Telugu writers. Among these are the prologues to their poems, which followed the Sanskrit model by customarily giving a brief description of the writer, a history of the king to whom the book is dedicated, and a chronological list of the books he published.
In Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three characteristics (Pali: tilakkhaṇa; Sanskrit: त्रिलक्षण trilakṣaṇa) of all existence and beings, namely anicca (impermanence), dukkha (commonly translated as "suffering" or "cause of suffering", "unsatisfactory", "unease"), [note 1] and anattā (without a lasting essence).