Avadanasataka

The Avadānaśataka or "Century of Noble Deeds (Avadāna)" is an anthology in Sanskrit of one hundred Buddhist legends, approximately dating to the same time as the Ashokavadana. Ratnamālāvadāna. The work may be from the Mulasarvastivada school.

It was copiled by a Buddhist monk from northwest India between the second and fourth centuries CE. The stories in this work may have worked as a prescription for appropriate behaviour.