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    aśvaghoṣa

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 115, col. 1.
    aśva—ghoṣa m. N. of a Buddhist patriarch.
    ☞ p. 1318, col. 1.
    N. of the author of the Buddha-carita (2nd or 3rd cent, A.D.)

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 521.
    aśvaghoṣa (a° + ghoṣa) m. N. pr. eines Buddhisten BURN. Intr. 215. fg. 556. LIA. II, Anh. V. WEBER, Lit. 156, N. 1.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 139, col. 1.
    aśvaghoṣa m. N.pr. eines Mannes (buddh.).

    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 81, col. 2.
    Aśvaghoṣa , n. of a teacher (and author): Mvy 3480.

    Puranic Encyclopedia

    ☞ p. 67, col. 1.
    AŚVAGHOṢA . A famous Sanskrit poet. He has written

    many Sanskrit books prominent among which are

    the two great poems, Buddhacarita and Saundarananda

    and a drama called Śāriputraprakaraṇa. He lived in

    the 2nd Century A.D. His history of Buddha (Buddha-

    carita) was translated into Chinese during the period

    414 to 421 A.D. He was known under the following

    names also: Ācārya, Bhadanta, Mahāvādī and Bhikṣu.