Who was Ashvaghosha ?

AÅ›vaghoá¹£a(Devanagari: …˜‹) (c. 80 c. 150CE) was anIndianphilosopher-poet, born inSaketain northern India to a Brahmin family.^[1]He is believed to have been the firstSanskritdramatist, and is considered the greatestIndianpoet prior toKālidāsa. He was the most famous in a group of Buddhist court writers, whose epics rivaled the contemporaryRamayana.^[2]Whereas much of Buddhist literature prior to the time of AÅ›vaghoá¹£a had been composed inBuddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, AÅ›vaghoá¹£a wrote inClassical Sanskrit