Portrayal of women in the kavyas of Asvaghosa

Asvaghosa is one of those very few great poets, who have enriched Indian poetry by richness of the content presented and charmingness of the expression employed.i Asvaghosa, a man of par excellence ability in expressing himself is credited with the two kavyas-the Buddhacarita and the Saundarananda. The Buddhacarita is technically called a Mahakavya or great poem-a courtly epic in art and it is composed in the style appropriate to kavya. We find in the Buddhacarita a considered and an artistic arrangement of the materialii from the birth of the Buddha until his entry into Parinirvana.