 Recent scholarship has brought to light a short Sanskrit life of Shantideva in a 14th-century CE Nepalese manuscript.An accessible account that follows the Butön closely can be found in Kunzang Pelden, "The Nectar of Manjushri's speech".Shantideva was born in the Saurastra (in modern Gujarat), son of King Kalyanavarman, and he went by the name Śantivarman.