Ksudrakagama
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Ksudrakagama Minor texts, such as avadanas, jatakas (birth stories), and so on, may be included in a fifth agama, the Ksudrakagama or Ksudrakapitaka. This seems to have been the case in the canon of the Dharmagupta school. The Sarvastivada school had a fourth pitaka called the Ksudrakapitaka. Its contents may have been the Buddha's teaching in twelve divisions, containing such divisions as avadana, jataka, gatha, and so on. Both schools had equally popular vinaya's (monastic rules) in China in the fifth century. The content of our text resembles the content of a Ksudrakapitaka. It is certainly not a complete Ksudrakapitaka, but it bears all the marks of a text in a Ksudrakapitaka.
