For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most
important event in their lives, as it largely determined their
socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has been little in
the way of systematic examinations of the evidence on marriage
customs among Buddhists of this time, and our understanding of the
lives of early Buddhist women is still quite limited. This study
uses ten stories from the Avadanasataka, the collection of Buddhist
narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to
examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes
marital customs and the development of nuns' hagiographies, while
revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this
period.
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