A/svaghos!a， a prolific Indian scholar-monk of the second century， a native of S/ra^vasti^舍卫城. He was a polymath who originally was a critic of Buddhism， but was later converted by a philosopher named Pa^r/sva. He is the putative author of a number of texts， but some of these， such as the Awakening of Maha^ya^na Faith 大乘起信论， have been determined to be later productions.