Buddhist Birth-stories (Jataka Tales): The Commentarial Introduction Entitled Nidāna-kātha, the Story of the LineageThe Commercial Introduction Entitled Nidana-Katha-The Story Of The Lineage-Translated From Prof. V. Fausboll`S Edition Of The Pali Text By T.W. Rhys Davids. |
Contents
Selected Stories | 4 |
The Kalilag and Damnag Literature xxvii | 27 |
Other Migrations of the Buddhist Tales xxxix | 42 |
at the Council of Vesāli li | 51 |
The Pali Names of the Jātakas lv | 61 |
Form of the Jātakas | 68 |
Summary of the Origin of the Present | 74 |
Story of Sumedha the First Bodisat | 82 |
The Bodisats Son is Born | 168 |
The Great Struggle against Sin | 181 |
The Great Victory over Māra | 190 |
The Bliss of Nirvana | 200 |
The Hesitation whether to Publish | 206 |
Triumphal Entrance into Rājagaha | 212 |
Return Home | 217 |
Presentation of the First Monastery | 229 |
The Successive Bodisats in the Times | 115 |
Life of the Last Bodisat who became | 144 |
His Birth | 154 |
Prophecy of the Brahmin Priests | 161 |
The Kalilag and Damnag Litera | 237 |
The Cariya Piṭaka and the Jātaka | 243 |
Former Buddhas | 249 |
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Æsop Arabic ascetic assemblies of disciples Babrius Barlaam Barlaam and Josaphat became become a Buddha beholding Benares Benfey Blessed Bo-tree Bodhisatta Bodisat born brahmin Buddhahood Buddhavamsa Buddhist Buddhist Birth Stories called canonized century Ceylon Channa charioteer chief disciples chief woman-disciples commentary cubits high devas Dipankara Doctrine earth edition Esop's Fables father flowers four fulfil the perfection future Buddha gave give Gotama Greek grove hand hatchet heard hermit hundred thousand Indian Jātaka Jātaka Book Jātaka Fausböll Josaphat KALILAG AND DAMNAG Kalilah and Dimnah Kanthaka Kapilavatthu Kassapa king's leagues lived Mallika Māra Master mighty million million mother Nāgas Nirvana Pāli Pancha Tantra Phædrus Piṭakas Planudes Rājagaha saints Sakka saying seat servitor seven shalt be Buddha Siddhattha Singhalese Suddhodana Tantra Tathāgata thou shalt thought thousand worlds three assemblies took tortoise translation tree verse Vinaya wise Sumedha words