Avadanasataka
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The Avadānaśataka or "Century of Noble Deeds (Avadāna)" is an anthology in Sanskrit of one hundred Buddhist legends, approximately dating to the same time as the Ashokavadana.[1] Ratnamālāvadāna.[2] The work may be from the Mulasarvastivada school.[3]
It was copiled by a Buddhist monk from northwest India between the second and fourth centuries CE. The stories in this work may have worked as a prescription for appropriate behaviour.[4]