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Buddhavaṁsa

The Buddhavaṁsa is a late devotional text in verse detailing the lives of 24 past Buddhas and the prediction of the awakening of the historical Buddha Gotama. This is a late text, without direct counterparts in the northern collections. It is, however, part of an extensive pan-sectarian devotional literature composed in the second and first centuries BCE, presaging the birth of the Mahāyāna.